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Indescribable

November 16, 2006 By Peter Bulanow 1 Comment

A concept video set to Chris Tomlin’s song.

I love reading theoretical physics, particularly by non-theists, as their viewpoint would be without a theistic agenda (i.e. not propaganda). One of the most worshipful titles for a book that I could imagine would be “The Elegant Universe,” which is a book that the non-theist Brian Green wrote. Brian is kind of a “rock star” of modern physics, perhaps the heir apparent to Einstein and then Hawkins. This book spawned a NOVA special that walks you through the ideas of the book, and which served as much of the source material for this edit.

This product was originally created as a “click track video”, with some of the sound effects on the right channel to be sent to the house, and a click so that a live band could play in time to this song on the left channel, to be sent to the drummer’s in-ear monitors.

One of the real highlights for me was invoking the differential equations of the four electro-magnetic forces commonly known as Maxwell’s equations (1:38) to illuminate what God most certainly declared when he created light. As an engineer who studied those four equations for two semesters, having those beautiful statements presented in a sanctuary serve to unite God in his creation in a significant way.

I loved the opportunity to use the actual Apollo 8 Genesis reading during the bridge (2:25).

Calabi-YauAnother notable feature (3:12) is the rendering of the 6-dimensional Calabi Yau shape necessary for the math in String Theory, which I used to illustrate the idea of “Indescribable’. Since we live in three dimensions of space, a six dimensional object would certainly seem incomprehensible to us.

Our God, creator of our reality, with so many more dimensions than six, would be so much more so indescribable.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Calabi-Yau, Creation, Gen 1:3, Light, Maxwells Equations, Physics, Romans 1:20

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