I came across a wonderful little story in Exodus that truly piqued my scientific interest: Exodus 33-34. The interesting parts are these:
"And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen." Exodus 33: 23
""And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tablets of testimony in Moses; hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him." Exodus 34: 29.
Humans do not have bioluminescent capabilities. We do not have the facilities in our bodies to cause a reaction that releases bursts of light. So what must have happened is that God's "back parts" released radiation that was resonant with the atoms and molecules in Moses' face. Let me explain how this works:
Electrons are "bound" in specific states in orbits about the nucleii of atoms, which can be thought of as radii. When a photon - a particle that carries electromagnetic energy - is absorbed by an electron, it can go to a higher state, or a larger radius. However, electrons don't like being energetic, so it soon shoots a photon back out so that it can go back to the first state, or radius.
Therefore, God's "back parts" must have emitted photons of a resonant wavelength that made the electrons in Moses' face transition to a higher state for a while, then transition back down and release a photon (thus fluorescing). And this was in the visible range (for the people saw it), and therefore was between approximately 390 nm and 750 nm.
This raises an interesting question: Could we perhaps harness God's back side as a power source? According to The Da Vinci Code, God is theorized as the original source of energy. However, the closer to "heat death" we become, the less power we can harvest and use. Perhaps the utilization of God's back side would allow us to escape that end, and continue surviving on into infinity.
Just food for thought.
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