In later years she worked as his secretary, and then, in collaboration with Frederick Froebel, and of course Bronson Alcott, brought the kindergarten and progressive education to America. The primeval universe stood in its vestibule of hydrogen and helium for millions of years, but Mr. Channing spoke of a vestibule through which we may pass rapidly. In that primeval vestibule there was light, and that light has taken form in matter and energy shaping and reshaping itself in ever more exotic and marvelous ways, and the constant presence in this descent of life is the light. At the speed of light, time stops. With light, there is no time.
Light is more fundamental than space-time.
And consciousness will be as fundamental to what happens now. On this eve of the next Millennium I want for you to consider the speed of light. Each significant new development happens in something like one quarter to one tenth the time the previous one took. The intervals drop on a curve and the intervals approach zero. A singularity, when there is no interval.