The author

L.R. is neither a biologist nor a physicist: he is a curious reader who has always carried the same questions about the origin of life and our place in the cosmos.

The idea for Lux Lucis came on a summer afternoon, in the garden, in front of a leaf with the sun shining through it. We know that light, in optical fibers, carries information. That day the thought was a simple one: what if light carried information in nature too, and life were matter that learns to listen to it?

From that intuition came months of reading, checking and writing, and finally the book: an essay that does not claim to have the final answer, but proposes a different way of looking at three great scientific enigmas, and follows them to the point where they meet spirituality.

The full story of that afternoon is in chapter 2, “The illuminated leaf.”