Description
Our Magic Moon egg is almost enchanting. Its beautiful opalization/iridescence most resembles opaline or opalite, yet it is neither, nor has anything to do with it. When you look at the stone, you experience a spiritual glow, reminiscent of a rising moon amidst a cloudscape filled with sparkles and colorful spectacles.
Magic or sorcery is the supposed art of manipulating reality based on the idea that one can contact the supernatural through rituals and incantations. One of the functions of magic was and is to provide unusual meaning or to offer stability in an uncertain world. Practices considered magical include divination, astrology, exorcism, witchcraft, sorcery, spiritualism, and sometimes alchemy. Modern anthropological and sociological studies of magic now view these and other practices more as aspects and expressions of a total worldview of a specific culture at a particular time, just as religion and science are part of the culture of a people.[1] In other words, magic is not merely a "technique": it inevitably presupposes an underlying worldview, a way in which everything that happens is understood and explained. Magic also describes a mode of rationality, a cosmology, which assumes that invisible forces can bring about changes in material reality. This article focuses primarily on Western traditions and perceptions of magic.
Iridescence (Greek: iris = rainbow, also iridize) is the physical phenomenon of angle-dependent color and occurs only in structural colors. Iridescent colors result from the refraction and interference of light in or on the surface of an object consisting of multiple layers with different refractive indices. The colorful appearance is often described as having "the colors of the rainbow." Some examples include oil on water, mother of pearl, or soap bubbles. People generally find the phenomenon beautiful. Iridescence is caused by multiple reflections in (semi-)transparent materials. This creates phase shifts in the waves emerging after reflection. Mutual interference between these phase-shifted waves then creates modulation differences, with some wavelengths amplified and others weakened. The reflections responsible for iridescence arise in rock crystal, for example, from refraction due to small cracks in the material, and in mother of pearl from the material's composition of many thin layers. Because the effect depends on the viewing angle, iridescence cannot actually be captured by photography, but spectroscopy would have to be used for this.
