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Bodies of Light (2021) is a novel by Australian writer Jennifer Down.. It won the 2022 Miles Franklin Award, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Voss Literary Prize, the 2022 Stella Prize, the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award, the 2022 Age Book of the Year Award, the 2022 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel, and the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction.
The body of light, sometimes called the 'astral body' [a] or the 'subtle body,' [b] is a "quasi material" [1] aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, posited by a number of philosophers, and elaborated on according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings. Other terms used for this body include ...
The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series , and is the sequel to A Column of Fire . The Armour of Light takes place in the years 1792–1824 in Kingsbridge, the same fictional English town in The Pillars of the Earth .
The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century to early 20th century classical physics that an ideal black body at thermal equilibrium would emit an unbounded quantity of energy as wavelength decreased into the ultraviolet range. [ 1]: 6–7 The term "ultraviolet catastrophe ...
A Memory of Light is the 14th and final book of the fantasy series The Wheel of Time, written by American authors Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, and published by Tor Books. Originally expected to have been published around March 2012, the book was delayed several times, and the hardcover edition was eventually released on January 8, 2013 ...
This is a list of sources of light, the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum.Light sources produce photons from another energy source, such as heat, chemical reactions, or conversion of mass or a different frequency of electromagnetic energy, and include light bulbs and stars like the Sun. Reflectors (such as the moon, cat's eyes, and mirrors) do not actually produce the light that ...
Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2] The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.
The etheric body, ether-body, or æther body is a subtle body propounded in esoteric and occult philosophies as the first or lowest layer in the human energy field or aura. [1] [2] The etheric body is said to be in immediate contact with the physical body and to sustain it and connect it with "higher" bodies.