Latest Research Reveals: Particles from a Rainbow

Particles of a Rainbow

Further analytical work on picosamples from ‘Ulleysand’ has revealed new information about this important IMoB object. Rather than being a universal artist pigment, as was previously described, we can now confirm that the stratified coloured particles represent the physical remains of a rainbow.

The rainbow was captured by observing its wave like electromagnetic radiation at a moment of detection that fixed the properties of the rainbow as discrete physical photon particles. The particles have retained some of their wave like properties (such as colours that have been distorted by the wave-particle transition) in a solid form. 

The existence of the physical reality of such sub atomic particles was predicted in Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, and demonstrated in experiments in the IMoB Quantum Material Research Lab, but this is the first time that an underlying fabric of reality has been demonstrated for phenomena such as rainbows.

This despite what guru Khyentse Rinpoche tried to teach us

"All phenomena of samsara and nirvana arise like a rainbow, and like a rainbow they are devoid of any tangible existence. Once you have recognised the true nature of reality, which is empty and at the same time appears as the phenomenal world, your mind will cease to be under the power of delusion. If you know how to leave your thoughts free to dissolve by themselves as they arise, they will cross your mind as a bird flies across the sky without leaving any trace''  (Ricard and Thuan 2001, 118).

Ricard, Matthieu., Thuan, Trihn Xuan., 2001. Quantum and the Lotus: A journey to the frontiers with science and Buddhism meet. New York: Three Rivers Press.