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Ever wonder if the universe is trying to tell us something? What if the light all around us is hiding a mind-blowing secret?
Light, it’s everywhere. It wakes you up, guides you home, and paints your world in color. But have you ever wondered if there’s more to it than meets the eye? What if the everyday glow we take for granted is whispering something extraordinary, something about the universe itself?
In this eye-opening book, I dive into the mysteries of light and uncover something wild: Light’s 18 unique properties tell an incredible story about our Creator.
Sounds crazy, right? But stick with me. This information turned my world upside down. This isn’t about heavy science or preachy religion, it’s about seeing things differently.
Light reveals what’s hidden. It’s the ultimate truth-teller, showing what’s really there.
I’m not here to convince you of anything. Whether you’re a skeptic, a dreamer, or just someone who loves a good “what if,” this book will pull you into a journey that connects the dots between the physical world and something bigger.
No PhD, or background in science, or faith required—just an open mind.
Why read it? Because light is something we all get. It’s universal. And through its quirks, you might stumble onto answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.
If you’re intrigued by seeing the universe in a new way, this book is a good place to start.
Have you ever wondered what holds everything together?
In this video I take you from the edge of a galaxy all the way down to a single atom to show you how it works, and what it may say about the One "in whom all things hold together."
👉👉👉 That's one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book, The Author of Light. Plain English, no math: amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…
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If a rocket had all the fuel in the universe, could it get to the speed of light?
Give it an engine that never quits and fuel that never runs out, and it still can't get there.
In about a minute, I walk through why,
Why would the one speed nothing can reach be the speed of light? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
Have you ever wondered how a movie gets from a server hundreds of miles away to your TV in a few seconds?
For most of the trip, it rides on light.
The backbone of the internet is made of glass fibers about as thin as a human hair. A laser at one end flashes on and off billions of times per second. Each flash is a tiny piece of your movie, your email or your video call.
Cables full of these fibers lie on the ocean floor. They carry most of the internet traffic between continents.
And one strand doesn't carry just one stream. Engineers send many colors of light down the same fiber at once, and each color carries its own separate stream of data. They don't get in each other's way.
Here is where it gets stranger. A beam of light can also be twisted as it travels, like a corkscrew. It can twist once, twice, three times, and so on. Each amount of twist is a different pattern that can carry its own information.
Mario Krenn of the University of Vienna's Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information put it this way: "The Orbital Angular Momentum OAM of light is theoretically unbounded, meaning that one has, in theory, an unlimited amount of different distinguishable states in which light can be encoded."
In theory, no upper limit.
As I wrote in The Author of Light: "A single light beam has the capacity to transmit an infinite number of conversations at once."
And: "The restriction to accessing the infinite data-handling capacity of light is due to the limitations of our technology, not the limitations of light."
Scripture says this about God: "Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit." Psalm 147:5
Isaiah said it too: "his understanding no one can fathom." Isaiah 40:28
God is infinite in knowledge and wisdom.
This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. If one beam of light has room for an infinite number of conversations at once, what does that say about the One who made it? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
2/ That's one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book, The Author of Light. A short read, no science background needed: amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…
Have you ever seen the Sun?
You might think so. But you have never seen the Sun as it is right now.
Light is the fastest thing in the universe, about 186,000 miles every second. Fast, but not instant. So everything you look at, you see a little in the past.
A friend across the room, you see about 10 billionths of a second late.
The Moon, as it was about 1.3 seconds ago.
The Sun, as it was about 8 minutes and 20 seconds ago. If the Sun suddenly went dark, it would keep shining in your sky for over 8 minutes.
Proxima Centauri, the nearest star beyond the Sun, as it was more than 4 years ago.
Some of the starlight reaching your eyes tonight left its star before Columbus sailed.
So the night sky is not a snapshot of the present. It is a stack of messages from different moments in history, all arriving at your eye at once.
Astronomers use this every day. The farther out a telescope looks, the further back in time it sees. The James Webb Space Telescope has photographed galaxies as they were when the universe had just formed.
And the oldest light of all is still arriving.
After the universe began, it cooled enough for light to travel freely. That light has been crossing space ever since. The expansion of space has stretched its waves so far that it now arrives as microwaves, from every direction in the sky. It is called the cosmic microwave background. A small part of the static on an old analog TV came from it.
So light is not only how we see. It is a record. Every beam carries a report of where it came from and when it left.
An ancient poet wrote about the sky long before anyone knew any of this: "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge."
In my book I wrote that the laws of creation "convey a message that is being broadcast throughout the universe twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week."
If the oldest light in the universe is still delivering its message, who is the message from? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
The message light carries, and what it might be telling us about God, is in my book The Author of Light. Plain English, no math: amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…
NASA Hubble Space Telescope high-resolution composite image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide star-forming region named the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex. This complex is about 500 light years from earth.
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.” Psalm 19:1-4
Dr. Doug Corrigan retweeted
If a rocket had all the fuel in the universe, could it accelerate to the speed of light?
On the highway, your car tops out because of air resistance and the limits of its engine. Out in deep space there is no air. So picture a rocket whose engine never quits, pushing forever. Why couldn't it eventually pass the speed of light?
Einstein's special relativity gives a surprising answer. The faster something moves, the more energy it takes to add even a little more speed. At everyday speeds you would never notice. Near the speed of light, it becomes a wall.
Here is what that wall looks like in numbers. Pushing a spaceship from 99 percent of light speed to 99.9 percent more than triples the total energy you have spent. Adding one more 9, to 99.99 percent, roughly triples it again. The speed creeps closer to the limit, but the cost climbs without end.
This is not only a thought experiment. The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva pushes protons around a 17 mile ring to about 99.999999 percent of the speed of light. Each proton then carries more than 7,000 times the energy locked up in its own mass.
How much more energy would this protein need to get to light speed? Even if you put all of the energy in the universe to accelerate a proton that’s already at 99.999999% c, the proton’s speed would still fall short.
In my book I put it plainly: "It is impossible for any object to accelerate to the speed of light due to the fact that this would require an infinite amount of energy."
Light itself never has to climb that wall. A photon has no rest mass. It is never sped up to light speed. It comes into existence already moving at that speed.
And no matter how close your rocket was able to get to the speed of light, "a beam of light would still whiz past you at exactly the speed of light.” It would be like you weren’t moving at all.
So the one speed that sets the rules for the whole universe is a speed nothing with mass can ever reach. Not with all the energy in the universe.
Ancient writers asked this about God: "Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?"
I find it interesting that the deepest limit in physics behaves the same way. It is always ahead of us, and always out of reach.
Why would light, of all things, be the one limit no amount of power can reach? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
Dr. Doug Corrigan retweeted
Did you know your TV remote has been shining a light at your TV?
Grab the remote and your phone. Open the camera, point the remote at the lens, and press a button. On many phones you will see a small light flicker at the tip. If the back camera shows nothing, try the front one.
Your eyes can't see this light. The remote talks to your TV with infrared light, which sits just past the red end of the colors we can see.
It is far from the only invisible light around you. The Wi-Fi in your house, the signal reaching your cell phone, the waves warming your leftovers in the microwave, the X-ray at the dentist.
Every one of them is light. It is the same stuff as sunlight, vibrating at different frequencies. Some we can see, some we can’t.
Here is the part that still amazes me. Every sunset, every face, every color you have ever seen fits in a band so narrow that its highest frequency is not even double its lowest.
The full spectrum, which includes frequencies we can’t see, runs from radio waves all the way to gamma rays that vibrate trillions of times faster.
As I wrote in The Author of Light: "The overwhelming majority of the electromagnetic spectrum is completely invisible! But it's all made of the same stuff."
I believe God works the same way. "At any given time, we can only see a very limited sliver of God and what He is doing. Even though we cannot see Him, He is there."
Scripture says it plainly: "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities... have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made." Romans 1:20
Your remote doesn't stop working because you can't see its light. God doesn't stop working because you can't see Him either.
Most of what He is doing in your life is happening in the part of the spectrum your eyes were never built to catch.
This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. What else is hiding in the part of light we can't see? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
Have you noticed that almost everything in your life has to be recharged?
Your phone dies by evening. Your car needs gas. A ball rolled across the floor slows down and stops. Even you need breakfast.
Everything we know runs down unless something keeps feeding it.
Light doesn't.
Turn on a flashlight and the batteries power the bulb. But once the light leaves the bulb, it needs nothing else. No engine pushes it.
Here is why. Light is made of an electric field and a magnetic field, and each one keeps creating the other.
You use this principle every day. A wireless charging pad works because a changing magnetic field produces an electric push in a coil inside your phone.
In the 1860s, James Clerk Maxwell worked out that the reverse is also true. A changing electric field produces a magnetic field.
Put those together. The changing electric field makes a magnetic field, which makes an electric field, which makes a magnetic field, over and over. The wave carries itself.
When Maxwell calculated how fast that wave would travel, the answer matched the measured speed of light.
On a dark autumn night you can see the Andromeda galaxy with your bare eyes. That faint smudge is light that has crossed empty space for trillions of miles. It spreads out and grows dimmer with distance, but nothing had to keep it going.
As I wrote in The Author of Light: "Once a light beam is let loose in the vacuum of space, it will travel forever with no additional energy input."
And then: "Just like light is self-sustaining, God is self-sustaining as He requires no additional or outside energy source to exist. God persists forever without change."
Everything else in creation runs on borrowed energy. God borrows from no one.
Moses saw a picture of this in the desert: "the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." Exodus 3:2
When he asked God's name, the answer was "I AM THAT I AM." Exodus 3:14
You and I run down. We need sleep, food and grace every single day. The One who gives them never runs low.
This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. What else did God build into a single beam of light? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
2/ That's one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book, The Author of Light. Plain English, no science background needed: amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…
If a rocket had all the fuel in the universe, could it get to the speed of light?
Give it an engine that never quits and fuel that never runs out, and it still can't get there.
In about a minute, I walk through why,
Why would the one speed nothing can reach be the speed of light? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
2/ This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book, The Author of Light: amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…
Why don't you fall through your chair?
It sounds like a silly question until you look at what a chair is made of.
Your chair, like you, is made of atoms. And atoms are almost entirely empty space. If the nucleus at the center of an atom were the size of a pea, its electrons would be spread out to roughly the edges of a football stadium. Nearly everything in between is empty.
So you are a cloud of mostly empty atoms, sitting on another cloud of mostly empty atoms. Why don't they just pass through each other?
The main answer is the electromagnetic force. The outer edge of every atom is a cloud of negatively charged electrons.
When the electrons in your jeans get close to the electrons in the chair, they push back against each other, and a rule of quantum physics keeps electrons from crowding into the same state. That push is what you feel as "solid."
The same force does almost everything else that keeps the world in one piece. It binds electrons to the nucleus of every atom. It forms the chemical bonds that link atoms into molecules. It holds the two strands of your DNA together. It lets a gecko walk up a glass window.
And it is strong. Two protons push each other apart with a force about a trillion trillion trillion times stronger than the gravity pulling them together. A small fridge magnet lifts a paper clip against the gravity of the entire Earth.
Here is the surprising part. In quantum physics, the electromagnetic force is carried by photons. The same particles that make up light.
In my book I put it this way: "All matter is being held together by light. Light is the glue that holds all things together."
The Bible says this about Christ: "He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."
I find it interesting that physics points to an analogous kind of glue. Something unseen, holding every atom of the world in place, every second.
What does it mean that the force holding you together is carried by the same thing that lets you see? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
2/ Why light turns out to be the glue holding all things together, and what that might say about God, is in my book The Author of Light. Plain English, no math: amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…
Scientists believe that certain species of migratory birds can actually “see” the earth’s magnetic field.
Embedded in their retina are certain crytochrome receptors that respond to magnetic fields through quantum level processes. It’s thought that the birds actually see the earth’s magnetic field overlaid on the visual image as two different colors that represent the South Pole and North Pole directions.
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How much energy is locked inside a paper clip?
A paper clip weighs about one gram. If all of that mass could be turned into energy, it would release about 90 trillion joules. That is roughly the energy of 21,000 tons of TNT. That’s enough energy to supply all
of New York City’s electrical power needs for 4 hours.
From one paper clip.
That number comes from the most famous equation in physics, Einstein's E=mc2.
Energy equals mass times the speed of light, squared.
The equation says mass and energy are not two separate things. Mass is energy in a very concentrated form, and one can turn into the other.
Every second, the sun turns about 4 million tons of its own mass into the energy that provides light and heat for our planet.
Nuclear power plants use the same principle on a small scale. When a uranium nucleus splits, the pieces weigh slightly less than the original. That missing mass is converted into usable energy.
There is even a version of it in hospitals. In a PET scan, the patient receives a tracer that gives off positrons, the antimatter twins of electrons. When a positron meets an electron, both particles vanish. Their mass is completely converted into two flashes of gamma ray light flying off in opposite directions, and the scanner catches them to build a picture of the body.
Matter, turned entirely into light.
Now look at the equation again. Of all the numbers in the universe, the one that sets the exchange rate between mass and energy is the speed of light. Not the mass of an electron. Not the strength of gravity.
Light.
In my book I put it this way: "Light is the standard that relates the interconversion between mass and energy."
Light also defines how fast time flows and how distance is measured. The same speed of light sets how much time slows and how much distance shrinks when things move fast.
Essentially, light is the absolute standard that calibrates everything in the universe.
Ancient writers said this about God: "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."
As a scientist, I can't help but notice how well that line fits an equation where matter and energy trade places, with light setting the terms.
Why would light, of all things, be the calibration to set this equivalence between mass and energy ? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
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What is light made of?
Think about the last time you stepped outside on a cold morning and felt the sun on your face. That warmth is light arriving. But what exactly arrived?
Most people think of light as one simple thing. It isn't.
Scientists describe a beam of light three ways, and all three belong together. There is an electric field that oscillates. There is a magnetic field that oscillates with it, oriented at a right angle to the electric field. And there is the photon, the quantum of that electromagnetic field, the tiny packet that interacts with matter.
The warmth on your face is photons being absorbed by your skin, one packet at a time.
You can't pull the three apart. A changing electric field creates a magnetic field, and a changing magnetic field creates an electric field. And when those fields interact with matter, they do so through particles called photons.
As I wrote in The Author of Light: "If you have any one of the three, then you find the other two. It is impossible to isolate just one component."
Yet each is truly different: "A magnetic field is fundamentally different from an electric field, and both are fundamentally different from a photon."
Three distinct descriptions. One light.
Now notice which of the three you actually interact with. The two fields are invisible and intangible. The photon is the one that is "seen," the one that delivers the light to your eye.
Scientists even call the photon the "mediator," or force carrier, of the electromagnetic force.
Scripture uses that same word for Jesus: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 2:5
And: "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." Colossians 2:9
The Father and the Holy Spirit, invisible. The Son, the visible one who comes to us. Three persons, one God.
The very thing Scripture says God is, "God is light" (1 John 1:5), turns out to come in threes, inseparable and distinct.
This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. How do the other 17 line up? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉
Dr. Doug Corrigan retweeted
Does light experience time?
This is one of 18 parallels between light and God that I explore in my book, The Author of Light 👉👉👉 amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…