Jiang says the earlier three-mirror candle experiment established that brightness remains equally bright regardless of distance even if apparent size changes.
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The quoted passage says the number of angels exceeds mortal speech and thought, while the one divine light is divided through many mirrors without losing its unity.
The three-mirror experiment is presented as showing that a farther reflection may appear smaller but not dimmer, so distance or recessed depth alone does not explain the moon's darker patches.
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"...right? And so they construct this experiment where there are three mirrors, and you hold a light, a candle, and the brightness is still..."
"the world's credulity increases so that people throng to every indulgence backed by no authority and no authority and this allows the antonines to..."
"...to disc employ disabilities are employ disabilities are national national many mirrors which divide its light but as before its own self still is..."
"then European surely is confused okay so she's using the example the solar eclipse to show us that it's not it can't possibly be..."
"from experiment taking three mirrors place a pair of them at equal distance from you set the third midway between those two but farther..."
"um one here one here one here okay just have three mirrors and then take a light this is the light and then shine..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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