The Truth About The Creation
God's Glory, God's Handiwork, God's
Word, The Genesis Account
A Dissertation by Pastor Ed Rice January 2017
3: A Time Warp
Was Conceived by Albert Einstein
This is not a digression. The thesis was to demonstrate that God
meant what he said about a six-day creation, in which he made the
universe out of nothing. Now, it is pursued that he did it, just when
he said he did it, 4,000 years before he sent his Only Begotten Son
as the Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world. Bear with this
pursuit that space-time travel is not what "science-so-called"
makes it out to be. Albert Einstein's theories of relativity insist
that things are not as they appear. It will be well worth the effort
to explore these theories in a little more depth.
Enter
Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
One hundred years ago Albert Einstein spent his days pondering and
developing what he published as the general theory of relativity.
This theory has been comprehended by few, maligned by more, and
wholly ignored by those who believe the super nova in the Large
Magellanic Cloud happened 168,000 years ago. The existence and study
of black-holes resurrects Einstein's neglected theory, and thrusts it
anew into the focus of the true scientist.
His theories reveal that time does indeed warp in the outer edges of
space.
Albert Einstein was enthralled with gravity. There had to be a reason
why the force of gravity and the force required to overcome inertia
were identical forces acting on a mass. His special theory of
relativity demonstrated that the speed of light was constant even
when there was relative motion between its source and its receptors.
He thus demonstrated that time is relative, and not a constant as
previously assumed. When time is not fixed, but relative to a
location, relative to a motion, and relative to the gravity present,
everything in Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry begins to take
on a new and uncertain character. One cannot just ignore these new
characteristics and pretend that light traveling from that Large
Magellanic Cloud took 168,000 years to get here. three-dimensional
space, gravity and mass all warp the speed of light, and thus time
itself is not constant but experiences a warp in itself.
In the spring of 1998 Florida State University offered an
astrophysics course that walked through a proof of Albert Einstein's
general theory of relativity. That course demonstrated that his
equations for relativity are valid and proven. The course material
stated:
"After ten years of arduous intellectual searching, in 1915,
Einstein succeeded, finally, in translating his profound physical
intuitions about nature into a rigorous mathematical theory of free
motion in curved space-times. Thus was born the General Theory of
Relativity. Einstein's equations:
G
m
n
= - (8 p
G / c2
) T m n
connect matter and energy (the right-hand side) with geometry of
space-time (the left-hand side). Each superscript stands for one of
the four coordinates of space time (x, y, z, t); so
what looks
like one equation is actually 4 x 4 = 16 equations. But some
(equations) are repeated (and so) there are really (only) 10
equations. Contrast this with the single gravitational law of Newton!
That alone gives a hint of the complexity of these equations. Indeed,
they are amongst the most difficult equations in science. Happily,
however, some exact solutions have been found."
Suffice it to say that the Florida State University course went on to
publish and explore the details of the 1916 Schwarzchild Solution,
which computed the space time interval between any two nearby points,
given an assumed distribution of matter and energy. Most readers will
delight to hear that this dissertation will not delve any deeper into
the mathematical jargon than is necessary for an introductory
coverage. The purpose in this examination is to demonstrate that
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity has not been fully
absorbed by science-so-called. For “nearby points, and an
assumed
distribution of matter and energy,” Schwarzchild has
demonstrated
this theory of relativity to be true. It is pertinent that for
non-nearby points of deep space, a day might be as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as a single day. Indeed for a Bible believer
that is not only the likely result, it is a promise (2 Pet 3:8,
Psalm90:4).
(Be careful here; these verses have been taken out of context by
those wishing to make a day of creation a much longer period of time.
These verses have also been taken out of context by those denying the
thousand year reign of Christ recorded in Revelation 20. In their
proper context they are referencing God's perspective about time not
God's communications about time.) A more in-depth examination of
Albert Einstein's theories can be found in a later chapter.
Given just that amount of time warp, i.e. a day being a thousand
years, the light from the February 23rd 1987 super nova in the Large
Magellanic Cloud, supposed 168,000 light years away, would reach us
in only 168 days. The light from Galaxy Andromeda II, supposed 2.13
million light years away, would reach us in a mere 2,130 days, or
just under 5 years and 9 months. Just the threshold of Albert
Einstein's general theory of relativity, gives a Bible believer ample
cause to completely trust what God has revealed about a six-day
creation that happened only 6,019
years ago. Previously we contrasted two means of calculating the age
of the Earth, Option A, where evidence in our own solar system
carries the weight, and Option B, where the speed of light from
distant galaxies carries the weight. Option A is still the best
choice. It is, however, the least chosen by mankind in general.
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, unites the speed of
light, the tick of the clock, the relative velocities of space, and
gravity's influence. All combine into one complex understanding. This
is only the first step in realizing the possibility of great error in
man's "scientific" age setting. Their age setting is based
solely on the speed of light coming from distant galaxies. Einstein's
theories make for a very significant first step in upsetting their
apple-cart. These theories of relativity were completely side stepped
by the atheistic evolutionist. Einstein's theories of special
relativity, and general relativity have realized the existence of
massive time warps in the universe. The atheistic evolutionists took
these realizations and explored every conceivable notion about time
travel and reaching distant galaxies with their sci-fy space
adventures, but they barely considered
that such time warps might muck up their speed of light dependence in
their Earth dating methods.
The universe's age of four billion to fifteen billion years is the
"sacred cow" of the atheistic evolutionist. It helps them
digest the extreme notion that breeding beagles could produce a
Clydesdale horse! Or lizards, a bald eagle! Those huge numbers soothe
their concept that everything happened by random chance. Even the
spontaneous generation of life from two rocks in a primeval sea might
therein be called a theory. Indeed an organized universe springing
from random chances must needs have billions of years to account for
the one in a billion chance of its truth. What is more disconcerting
in all this is that in the fifty years of their control of our
government schools, they have a majority of Americans believing their
unsubstantiated notions.
The Bible believer is perfectly justified in holding to a 6,019 year
old Earth. All the evidences in our solar system support such a
supposition. The only thing that supports the atheistic
evolutionist's supposition about millions and billions of years is
the speed of light perceived as approaching us from distant galaxies.
Such approaching light, supposed to be traveling at c
= 299,792,458 m / s for the whole distance, in actuality goes through
time warps explored via the general theory of relativity.
Darkness on the face of matter created out of nothing, and the
analysis of the black-hole has led to some pertinent conjecture about
space and time. It is fitting to press this a little further.
Einstein's two theories make time, space, matter and
electromagnetic-gravitational energies so interrelated that science
cannot perceive where one starts and another stops. That makes all of
the atheistic evolutionist's concepts of eons of time a fairy tale at
best. Such scientists will no more admit that, than would the
Emperor's adviser admit his Emperor was on parade stark naked.
Judging from the mocking, scoffing and slandering, leveled by
Professor Colin Groves,
of Australian National University, the atheistic evolutionist will
never expose the exposed Emperor. But Albert Einstein's concepts cut
even deeper into their myth.
A
Bounded Universe Causes Even Greater Time Warps
Albert Einstein perceived a bounded finite universe. The atheistic
evolutionist perceives an infinite, unbounded universe which exists
by random chance. In mathematics the difference in a bounded problem
and an unbounded problem is astronomical, no pun intended. The Holy
Bible distinguishes three distinct heavens (Deut 10:14, Neh 9:6).
The heaven where the clouds and birds fly (Deut 33:28, Job 35:5, Heb
1:10),
the heavens where the stars camp out (Ps 8:3 Ps 104:2),
and the heaven where God dwells in the fullness of his glory (2Ch
2:6, 6:18, 6:33, Ps 2:4, Ps 57:5, Ps 123:1).
Some have thought that the latter observation confounded his
omnipresence. It does not. He is present in every portion of his
finite creation, but he is present in his full glory in the third
heaven. The clarity pursued here, is that God is infinite, but the
universe which he created is finite. The Bible believer should side
with Albert Einstein's concept of a bounded universe, and reject the
atheistic conjecture that the universe is both unbounded and
infinite. This is an important realization mathematically, causing
Albert Einstein's theories to make mathematical harmony with
observable phenomena. It is also another milestone in justifying the
believing faith in God's Word. Yet it makes the atheistic
evolutionist's conjectures untenable.
The impact of a bounded universe is best understood by considering
what must happen when a boundary is approached. In mathematics going
through a boundary places one in what is called the world of
imaginary numbers. After teaching algebra for 20 years, this author
considers that title, "imaginary," to be misleading. The
imaginary number, is indeed very real. It is just as real as Albert
Einstein's ability to step off into a 4th, 5th,
6th and 10th dimension of
space and time. When
one begins to balance and solve mathematical equations they step off
into an imaginary dimension in the early stages of their problem
solving. In about AD 820 a Persian mathematician in Baghdad published
The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and
Balancing.
That title in Arabic is pronounced "Algebra." It,
as
well as Arabic numerals, "grew up together." Algebra has
demonstrated and justified a cause to jump from our secure
three-dimensional world into the imaginary dimension, designated
“i.”
When one
squares this imaginary
term, or multiplies any two imaginary terms together, they pop back
into the real dimensions of time and space. Algebra has been taking
full advantage of this ability since 2,000 BC, when it was explored
in the city of Babylon, in a land between two rivers, translated
"Mesopotamia." The exploration of this imaginary dimension
is explored further in the next chapter.
Ergo Albert Einstein's venture into this 10th
dimension
of space and time is not new, but his comprehension of it was
unprecedented. His ability to teach such excursions into imaginary
dimensions to university students was equally unprecedented. When
Albert Einstein, therefore, concludes that one is operating in a
bounded universe, it behooves every student of the cosmos to pay
attention. The mathematician has even more cause to heed that
declaration, having understood from the beginning how math folds in
on itself and behaves in a non-linear fashion near any boundary
condition.
Why then must the atheistic evolutionist reject the obvious bounding
of our universe? If the universe is "created" by Random
Chance, as they hypothesize, without a purposeful Creator, as they
speculate, it must not be, yea it cannot be earthocentric,
i.e. Earth is centric in the creation of the universe, it is the
point where this unique creation centers its genesis and attention,
and there is no other intelligence or life form in outer space which
holds the attention of the Creator. Consider the non-earthocentric
dilemma. If by random chance another "Goldilocks" planet
exists in the millions of galaxies out there, let's say it is 1
million light years away, their Hubble Telescope peers out from their
location and it must, of necessity, see from their perspective, the
same universe that we see from our perspective. After all, they
surmise, there is nothing unique about our perspective, it is just
random chance, as is theirs. They, in their perspective, now look at
another galaxy one million light years from theirs, two million light
years from ours, and they ponder, "I wonder if there is
intelligent life out there?" Of course, by the rule of random
chance, their must be, else they themselves might be unique in all of
the universe. Thus the atheistic evolutionist is forced by his Random
Chance Creator, to establish nothing less than an unbounded infinite
universe, even though that assumption begins to unravel the core
theories of Albert Einstein and dismiss 4,000 years of algebra.
Consider some boundary conditions that might depict the mathematical
warp of the universe.
Einstein's
Mainstay E = mc2 And Its Boundary Conditions
There are almost incomprehensible transformations which take place
when approaching a boundary condition. Consider two things about
Albert Einstein's famous equation:
E
= mc2
Where: E = energy
m = mass
c = speed of light
First consider that this equation
provides the clearest illustration of these energy to matter and
matter to energy transformations,
and second, consider that one must approach the boundary of abstract
reasoning before this makes sense. This author enjoys teaching math
and science in high school and college because of the joy of seeing
little lights go on when students comprehend a new concept. Math is
not arithmetic, it is the art of abstract reasoning. Many have not
wandered very deep into math so this illustration will be low on math
and high on reasoning. It will still, however, require grappling with
some abstractions. Such an exercise can be enlightening, but it can,
for some, be intimidating. No matter the education or mathematical
background, then, this illustration will walk towards the human
boundary of abstract reasoning. It is good for the finite mind to
explore its boundaries in this way.
“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom
concerning
all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God
given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith” (Ecc
1:13).
Imagine a boundary between mass and energy, then look at Albert
Einstein's famous equation again (see above). This equation tells us
that mass and energy are two forms of the same thing. To some extent
this was explored when we considered ex-nihilo creation. Mass is
nothing more than a translated form of energy. Many have thought this
equation, E = mc2, was well illustrated when a
tiny ball
of enriched plutonium was compressed so tightly that nuclear fission
released enough energy to annihilate a small city. That gave a good
example of how much energy is contained in a tiny mass, but it does
not serve much purpose in exploring the boundary condition between
mass and energy. Consider instead a pitcher throwing a baseball. That
ball thrown at 100 mph has had its mass converted to energy.
That kinetic
energy can be measured with the equation,
ek = ½ m v2
where: ek is the kinetic energy of the ball,
m is the mass of the ball,
and v is the velocity of the ball.
In reality that ball has had a tiny bit of its mass converted into
energy. Perhaps tiny-tiny should have been used here, but imagine
that the ball, because of its velocity, has gotten ever so slightly
smaller.
The fastest pitch ever recorded in major league baseball was 105.1
mph, on Sep 24th 2010. This illustration
requires that one
exceed Chapman's pitch to the San Diego Padres. Imagine the ball
going 1,000 mph, or 447 meters / second. A baseball's mass is about
0.145 kg and the kinetic energy of the ball is:
ek = ½ (0.145 kg) (447 m/s)^2
ek = 14,488.7 kg m2 / s2
That may seem like a relatively large number, and one would not want
to get hit by this pitch, but relative to the speed of light, which
is a velocity which has no relativity,
it is quite small.
Consider the speed of light to be approximately
448,900,000,000,000,000 mph. This speed of light is so imperceptible,
and this number is so astronomically large, that there is a whole
section in this work to annotate the amazing way it came to be
accurately measured. The speed of light, however, is the boundary
condition between mass and energy. When crossing that boundary, yea
when approaching that boundary, mass is wholly transformed into
energy. And coming back this way from that boundary, the boundary
being the speed of light, energy can transform into mass, if, and
only if, the creative forces are in place to form it into what one
now considers elemental matter. A blundering fool can tear matter
apart. Only a creative force can form it into the organized structure
of atom or molecule, that is a creative art.
For this very fast pitch there is only (v / c)2
converted from mass to energy. That is:
(v / c)^2 = (1000 / 448.9 x
10^15)^2
= 0.5 x 10^-30
(that is a decimal, thirty zeros, and a 5... which is a tiny-tiny
number).
So at 1,000 mph, how much mass is converted to energy? Granted it is
an imperceptible amount of mass which transforms to energy, however,
the principle is intact. The baseball, at that speed, is smaller than
it was when held in the pitchers hand. Now conceive that as the ball
approaches the speed of light its mass is converted all the more to
electromagnetic energy. And when it attains the speed of light it is
no more a mass, it is completely transformed into electromagnetic
energy. It may be helpful to recall that visible light itself is a
small segment of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum. Infrared,
ultraviolet, and radio waves are outside of that segment, but they
are, just the same, electromagnetic energies. Also consider that
gravity is an energy in this phenomena as well. Gravity is not
included in this analysis per-se, because it is not yet understood as
a radiating energy form.
This phenomena, where mass approaching the speed of light is
converted to energy, was advanced when the quantum physics of light
was explored. Light behaves like a wave on the one hand, and like a
speeding tiny pebble of mass, called a photon, on the other hand.
These two phenomena are at odds but both find their applications in
our understanding. Consider then that light can be understood as a
tiny particle which attains a speed of 449x10^15
mph, or
c, and looses its properties of mass as it achieves
the
properties of the electromagnetic energy wave. In some instances it
can still display the moving mass attribute, as it does when light
collides with an electron in a photo electric cell, wherein the
electron is ejected from its orbit.
The phenomena of mass transitioning into energy and energy
transitioning into mass by crossing some boundary related to space
and time (i.e. velocity) has occurred since the beginning of time.
Einstein's theories of relativity just begin to bring it into a
logical focus. The thesis being explored is that approaching and
passing into these boundary conditions suspends the Newtonian and
Gaussian laws of physics that we humans are accustomed to. Likewise
when one leaves this solar system and enters into deep space, the
understanding of time, speed, space and energy so intermingle that
science cannot say with certainty that when an object appears to be
168 thousand light years away, its light takes 168 thousand years to
get here. Neither can science say with any certainty whatsoever, that
physical operations at the boundary of a finite universe react
exactly as they do in our tiny little Cartesian coordinate system of
space. In fact one can say with more certainty that they do not
behave with our simplified rules.
One can see from this analysis that mass and energy are the same
physical entity. There are laws which control this passing from one
form to the other, E = mc2, M = m/(1-v2/c2)1/2,
and these laws noticeably supersede our Newtonian and Gaussian laws
we normally live in. There are boundaries where we cross out of our
comfortable world and enter a world where our old laws are not
relative. The speed of light marks a boundary, a critical mass marks
a boundary, the measure of God's firmament has a boundary and even
the passing of time must likewise have a boundary. The three
continuums which God created are not infinite, they are bounded. Thus
when approaching boundary conditions our simplified Newtonian
physics, arranged in our simplified Cartesian coordinate systems must
give way to the more profound and relative understandings. This is
where Einstein's theories of relativity live and thrive. This is
where science-so-called has its major shortfall. With the development
of Einstein's theories we will hypothesize that it did not take the
light coming from the 1987 supernova
in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 168,000 years to travel to us
even though it appears to be 168,000 light years away. To the
atheistic, evolutionary, science-so-called Ph.D., this realization
will be written off as nothing more than “smoke and
mirrors.” But
to the Bible believing born again Christian, who is indwelt with the
Spirit of God, and possesses a belief in an inerrant, infallible,
verbally inspired Word of God, the realization bolsters the knowledge
that God says what he means and means what he says.
Many creationists spend much energy, contemplation, and verbose
explanation on exactly how such a time dilation or time warping might
have occurred. Bill Brown of Rocky Mountain Creation fellowship
explains Dr. Humphrey's extensive work:
“One claims that the cosmic clock ticks much faster than the
earth
clock, due to concentration of gravity out in space, due to a huge
amount of water “above the expanse.” In
Humphreys’ cosmology,
time on earth is stopped on Day 4 so that the starlight could arrive
for Adam to see on Day 6.”
Such explanations are nothing short of genius, but they still fall
short of a rational understanding of “how” the LORD
God does what
he does, and “how” he did what he did. Further they
gender some
ugly sectarian squabbles among Christians. It is enough, this work
contends, to understand and believe in faith that God did what he
said and said what he did. The tools to glimpse into just
“how”
he may have done a six day creation are herein alluded to, but the
mechanics of it all are left to the more imaginative, and those
should not wax dogmatic and gender more sectarianism. All need to
realize more fully that “The heavens declare the glory of
God; and
the firmament sheweth his handywork” (Psalm 19:1).
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. . . In the beginning
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. . . Black Holes Expose World
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. . . Hungry for Relativity. . .
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