“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”~William W. Purkey
In the northern hemisphere, it is deep midwinter…the ground is hard as iron and water’s like a stone. It is the darkest time of the year, especially as one gets closer to the Artic Circle. Days and nights merge in constant darkness.
The science behind the colors explains this visible evidence that the Sun and the Earth are a connected system. The Earth is a magnet, its spinning, molten iron core generating a tear-shaped magnetosphere around our planet.
The Sun sends out streams of highly charged electrons at speeds of 1 million miles per hour called solar wind, all the time. Between 2 to 4 days after leaving the sun, these electrons reach the Earth’s magnetic field… most of the energy is deflected but some of it moves through the magnetosphere.
Those charged electrons energy can encounter atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Colors relate to the type of atom that is struck and where the atom is when it is struck.
When the highly charged electrons excite oxygen that is over 150 miles in altitude, the photons that are released from the oxygen are red. Below 150 miles, oxygen releases green photons. Nitrogen that is energized at or below 60 miles will be blue while if its above 60 miles from the Earth’s surface, the color is purple.
And so the dance of light is present at all times but only visible in the deepest darkest times of the year and in the coldest places on Earth. The dance is there when no one is watching….And the energy from one entity, kindles the light of another.
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”~Albert Schweitzer
