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Have you ever seen a rainbow? Until recently, I had looked at many rainbows but had never truly seen a rainbow.
In his writings on faith and logic, religious scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi maintained that looking and seeing are two different things. In his book, Words, he says,
“The eye is a window through which the spirit looks at this world. If you use it on behalf of your carnal soul, without selling it to God Almighty, by gazing at transient, impermanent beauties and spectacles, it panders to lust and other carnal desires.”
Using Nursi’s reasoning, you might look at a magician right in front of you, for example, but never see how a trick is accomplished. Likewise, the same thing happens when you look at a mathematical equation but do not see the x value (unless you are good at mathematics).
After watching MIT physics professor Walter Lewin’s lecture about a rainbow, I can finally see the rainbow instead of just looking at it. I took notes during Lewin’s lecture to share my fascination with this topic and reinforce my knowledge.
Claim: Walter Lewin is the author of "For the Love of Physics." This book…
