Harping on Light

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What happens when the impossible is finally achieved and we become light? Does time ultimately slow to a stop? To naturalists in 1911, Einstein remarked that what to us might be centuries would, to a living organism, be "a mere instant," provided the organism travels with nearly the speed of light. What about space? Does distance completely disappear? In his seminal 1905 paper, Einstein declared that, "For v=c all moving bodies—viewed from the 'resting' frame—shrivel up into plane figures." Everything is here and now, forever!

(Arthur Zajonc, Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind)

So, if the soul is light, all time is "now" and all space is "here"—just like one would expect from metaphysics.