Today Laotzu was a different kind of creature on a different planet. We were both ten-users, giving our minds a point of tangency and our two cultures a shared element. As we watched our separate suns setting, and I tried to watch with Laotzu's eyes as he may have been trying to watch with mine. I couldn't say the color of his star or how far from the planet it was or what he breathed or what temperature he liked or what pressure, but the constants of nature present in our situations were the same.
The keynote frequency in the sunlight around me is 40.8 quadrillion per minute so I know the temperature on the surface of Earth's star is 40.8 grade. The temperature of Laotzu's star might be 50 grade and the keynote frequency in its light therefore 50 quadrillion per minute. He and I see different stars of different temperatures, and accordingly a different mix of colors, but we see the same fundamental ratio.
What about the average frequency of a quantum in the light? That is always 2.7 times the keynote—another basic ratio. 40.8 times 2.7 is 110, so an average photon from the sun is vibrating 110 quadrillion per minute. And what about its energy? To find a photon's energy in electron volts from its frequency, either of us can simply divided by 100 quadrillion. The energy carried by that 110 quadrillion per minute photon is simply 1.1 electron volt—a ratio Laotze sure knows as well as I do.
Laotzu is a ten-user and witness to the same proportions in nature, upon which he bases his everyday units as I do. His star may be a different color from Earth's sun, and his eyes sensitive to differerent wavelengths, but the light from it comes at the same speed. Whatever its surface temperature he multiplies by a quadrillion as I do to get the keynote frequency in the light. Whatever the frequency he sees, he divides by a 100 quadrillion as I do to get its quantum energy.
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