The Precise Order in the Wavelength of Light
Our eyes enable us to see by perceiving only those rays in the universe that have a very
short wavelength. Devices such as microscopes and telescopes always work according to the
structure of our eyes and the light they are able to perceive. If light had very slightly
different properties then it would have been impossible to develop functional devices like
the microscope or telescope. Our eyes have been designed to distinguish that form of
light emitted by the sun that gives life to our planet.
The fact that very powerful visible light moves in relatively short wavelengths makes it biologically
possible for us to detect it. In order to see extended radio waves we would have to have
eyes as big as satellite antenna. And our eyes detecting infrared rays would serve no purpose.
In such an event we would constantly be distracted because every object emitting light would do
so at those wavelengths. If we were able to see infrared light then the room you are sitting
in would radiate brightly from top to bottom. The brightly colored rays that make up visible
light have different wavelengths. These wavelengths vary between 39 and 75 parts in a million of
a centimeter.
Isaac Asimov, one of the most renowned scientists of the 20th century describes the importance of
the delicate arrangement of the wavelengths of light by saying,
The shortness of the wavelengths is very important. The reason light wave travels in straight lines
and casts sharp shadows is that they are incomparably smaller than ordinary objects. Waves can curve
around an obstruction only when that obstruction is not much larger than the wavelength. Even bacteria
for instance are vastly wider than a wavelength of light. So light can define them sharply under a microscope.
If the wavelength of the rays that constitute visible light were any shorter, then we would be able to see
we would be able to see neither a grain of sand on the beach, nor microorganisms under the microscope.
I think that scientists who devote their lives to exploring the Harmonia Mundi cannot help seeing in it some divine plan.
I think God created the universe and life. Homo sapiens was created by God.