A Synthesis of Quantum Physics, Cosmogenesis & Sacred Traditions — February 2026

Water &
Light

and the Origin of Life

Earth did not need lightning. It needed light.

Ranji N. Samaraweera, MD

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Life is not chemistry animated by energy.
Life is light organised by water.

The lightning paradigm & its discontents

For seventy years, a sealed glass flask has anchored our understanding of life's origin. Stanley Miller's 1952 experiment — electrical sparks through a chemical soup — gave us amino acids and a story we've told ever since.

But lightning is destructive as often as constructive. It breaks bonds indiscriminately. And it produced a 50-50 racemic mixture of amino acids, while life uses almost exclusively left-handed forms — a 100% precision that random processes cannot explain.

The deeper clue lies hidden in plain sight: every fundamental molecule of life — adenine, guanine, tryptophan, the flavin cofactors — absorbs light maximally at approximately 260 nanometres. The same narrow UV window. Not coincidence. Selection.

The Triple Coincidence at 260–270 nm

Three independent phenomena. One impossible frequency.

260–270 nm
700nm Red 580nm Yellow 450nm Blue 380nm UV-A 260nm UV-C 200nm
Archean Atmospheric Window
The early Earth's atmosphere was transparent to UV-C at 205–285nm — the window through which life-forming light poured continuously onto the ocean surface.
Molecules of Life
DNA, RNA, every nucleobase, aromatic amino acids — all absorb maximally at ~260nm. Not as UV protection. As UV dissipators. They were selected by light.
Quantum Water Emission
Ice melting emits UV photons at 260–270nm. Quantum coherent water domains oscillate at exactly this frequency. Water was already doing this before life existed.

Water is not
a solvent

Conventional chemistry treats water as the medium in which life's reactions occur. This is fundamentally wrong. Water is the primary photon-processing system from which life is an extension.

Gerald Pollack's work revealed a fourth phase of water — EZ water (H₃O₂) — with liquid crystalline structure that excludes solutes, carries charge, and stores energy like a battery. It forms at every biological interface. Your cells are almost entirely EZ water.

Del Giudice and Preparata's quantum electrodynamic analysis showed that liquid water organises into coherent domains 100nm across — millions of molecules oscillating in unison, phase-locked to a trapped electromagnetic field at ~270nm. Liquid water is a quantum optical system. Ice melting is light being born.

100nm
Coherent Domain Diameter
H₃O₂
EZ Water Stoichiometry
260nm
Coherent Field Wavelength

Life as water's
photon engine

Karo Michaelian's Thermodynamic Dissipation Theory overturns the lightning paradigm entirely. Life did not arise from a marginal, episodic energy source. It arose from the dominant energy flux on Earth's surface: UV-C solar radiation.

The free energy available in UV light arriving at Earth's surface is more than a thousand times greater than all other non-photon sources combined — vents, lightning, volcanic activity combined.

The fundamental molecules of life are not accidents of random chemistry. They are UV pigments — molecular structures thermodynamically selected because they absorb UV-C most efficiently and dissipate it most rapidly as heat into surrounding water. Adenine absorbs at 260nm because it was selected by light. Not to protect against light. To be used by it.

Sound
creates light

Sonoluminescence is one of physics' deepest mysteries: when ultrasonic pressure waves collapse a gas bubble in liquid, it emits a brief, intense flash of light. Temperatures inside reach tens of thousands of Kelvin.

Julian Schwinger — Nobel laureate, co-creator of quantum electrodynamics — proposed this is a quantum vacuum effect: the rapidly moving interface converts virtual photons from the zero-point energy field into real, detectable photons. A 2022 study confirmed the emitted light has quantum optical signatures impossible to produce by classical thermal processes.

The physical chain: vibration → disturbance of quantum vacuum → virtual photons become real → light. Sound creates light. Not metaphorically. Physically. Through the structure of space itself.

Every tradition
began with vibration

Independently, across every civilisation that contemplated cosmic origin, the same sequence emerged: primordial vibration, then light, then form. Not coincidence. Accurate perception of something real.

Christian — Logos
"In the beginning was the Word... and the Word was made flesh." Vibration (Logos) precedes and generates all form.
Hindu — Nada Brahman
The universe as sound. Om (AUM) as primordial vibration from which all manifest reality unfolds. Hans Jenny's cymatics rendered Om as the Sri Yantra geometry.
Aboriginal — Songlines
The landscape was sung into existence. The singing is not metaphorical — it is ontological. Vibration maintains the existence of what it describes.
Genesis — Creation
Formless void → God speaks → light appears. Sound first, light second, matter third — the identical sequence modern cosmology describes.

The Cosmic Sequence

Quantum Vacuum
The unmanifest plenum. Virtual photons in all frequencies. Pure potential.
Vibration
Gravitational waves, acoustic oscillations disturb vacuum geometry.
Light
Virtual photons become real. UV-C at 260nm reaches the ocean surface.
Water
Coherent quantum domains receive, transform, emit light at phase transitions.
Life
Molecules that dissipate UV more efficiently. Water's photon engine extended.
Consciousness
The universe observing itself through the light that brought it into being.

"We are not separate from the light. We are what light does when it has had four billion years to learn."

Water, Light and the Origin of Life — Ranji N. Samaraweera MD, February 2026

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