Parallel Worlds

I have written a few times in the past about interesting correlations between the Torah's story of creation (including the writings of the Ariza"l and others) and discoveries of modern science. Last night I noticed the following:

Simon Singh in his book Big Bang starting with page 328 writes as follows (note, I am not quoting word for word): The earliest phase was pure chaos... an hour after its creation the Universe was still a plasma soup of simple nuclei and free electrons which bounced off one another over and over again... The Universe also contained one more ingredient, namely an overwhelming sea of light. Being present at the birth of the Universe would not have been a very illuminating experience, because it would have been impossible to see anything. Light interacts with charged particles, such as electrons, so the light would have scattered repeatedly off the particles in the plasma, resulting in an opaque Universe... As the Universe expanded it would steadily cool... at which point the electrons would latch on to nuclei and form stable, neutral atoms...This event is generally known as recombination... This dramatically changed the behavior of the light the filled the Universe. The moment of recombination was the first time in history that rays of light could sail through space unhindered. It was as though the cosmic cloud had lifted.
I see echoes of the first verses of Bereishis in which the Torah describes that there was a chaotic situation in which darkness was found. The coming of order was simultaneous with the appearance of light.