Ingo Hofmann obtained a PhD in physics at the Munich University. He became a professor of physics at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In recent years he has also served in the External Affairs work of the German Baha’i Community. He is author of the book (in German) Apokalypse im Umbruch der Zeit (BoD, 2019), which offers a wider perspective of the subject presented here.