Shortly, Light pollution is misuse of light. Several time people use light when there is no light needed or needed in a little amount. Light pollution can also be called as “Luminous pollution”.
So how should you define it?
It can be said about light pollution is that, excessive amount of artificial light in the surface of earth allowed to illuminate.
Still don’t get it?
Let me clear my self.
Suppose you are going for a long drive far from the city area. You are driving on a highway with full speed. Imagine that there is no building, no restaurant, no busy cafe, and no loud horn from cars at all.
Now you stop the car, stop the music or radio. When you get out from the car, it will be only you and nature.
Now look at the sky. What do you see?
You will observe the ancient beauty of starry sky. And trust me; you will be amazed if you see it for the first time.
So what’s the point?
The point is, we can understand that what is “Light Pollution” from this event this is the example of most common disadvantage that occurs from light pollution.
By knowing that , we will make our-self more conscious about light pollution.
i was told by Russian star gazers NZ has "they said" the least light pollution in the world, they are coming here just for that,, but they haven't seen our clouds i guess, it is something else.
i am a little optimistic on this for i found Aussie the stars are just amazing, around Alice springs area the milky way was unbelievable or it could have been the wild turkey and elephant beer,, then there's up in Canada and South America, theres some really serious night shows.
Russia for me had the coolest fork lightning shows i have ever seen,, around Kursk.
I think its some new age spiritual thing. I am a spiritualist myself, but like every form of religion there is a lot of crap, Christians playing around with poisonous snakes for example, we have Spiritualist having there minds taking over by aliens called Ra or something and speaking to people....in his case he is probably trying to get a message across to us heathens,...maybe its a message that we should be aware that lots of light are bad????
OOOORRRR he can be just talking about how you can't see stars in the bright cities and to mention common knowledge out of the blue which is just bazaar, oh and its bad too so get away from light pollution!!!
OOOORRR he was drunk and obviously didn't give a fudge?
Well lonelyranger that is a fact. But it is also fact that you can black out your windows with heavy curtains and be just fine. Light does interfere with are sleeping patterns and we won't enter full R.E.M. with bright lights in are eyes lids. Also studies show that even if you get the same amount of sleep during the day as you would at night you will not be as alert because are brains are programmed to sleep at night, so you will never be 100% working night shift (safety videos at work) :)
Light is one of the most interesting things in the world.
A photon (the basic unit of light) acts as both a particle and a wave and ALWAYS travels at the "speed of light" (of course).
But according to Einstein's Special Law of Relativity, if you could RIDE a photon, at the speed of light (naturally), and there was another photon right next to you, traveling at the speed of light in the same direction, then how fast would THAT photon be traveling in relation to you?
The answer would seem to be that you would keep up with the other photon as you are both traveling at the speed of light parallel to each other. But that would be wrong. Actually the other photon would be moving away from you in the same direction at the speed of light.
How is that possible, that if nothing can go FASTER than the speed of light, and YOU are traveling at the speed of light, a photon could be moving away from YOU in the same direction, also at the speed of light? Wouldn't that be like the other photon is actually traveling at TWICE the speed of light?
Not at all. That is where the idea of relativity comes in. While an observer on the ground would see the two photons traveling at the same speed relative to himself. An observer traveling as one of the photons, would see the other photon moving away, with special relativity to himself, at again the speed of light.
In quantum physics experiments, photons exhibit behavior as waves in certain experiments, with a single unobserved photon being every place that a photon can be - but an observed single photon exist in one place, which seems to make the act of observation (or conscious observation) to be the determining factor in how a single photon behaves.