The Truth About The Creation
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A Dissertation by Pastor Ed Rice January 2017
6: Relativity
Some
did not pay close attention in their high school Euclidean Geometry
course. Indeed some avoided it all together. The purpose of this
section is to overcome that and explore some foundational reasoning
for comprehending Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity.
The
believer in our Lord Jesus Christ wants to comprehend these theories
for two reasons. As stated previously, one is challenged to seek and
search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under
heaven; “this is the travail, which God hath given to the
sons of
men to be exercised in it.” (Ecclesiastes 1:13, 3:10) When
asked,
“Why climb Mount Everest?” the most common answer
is, “Because
it is there!” Why learn Einstein’s theories of
relativity?
Because they are here, and one is tasked to travail and exercise in
them.
Now
if that reason
does not sufficiently ward off someone’s dread of mathematics
and
abstract thought consider this: the rebellious heart of man has
contrived a notion that he has no Supernatural Creator. He thinks he
has arrived on the scene after millions of years of natural selection
and natural survival of the fittest. In their natural thinking light
left the sun this morning and in eight minutes traveled the 92.96
million miles to get here. So too, they surmise with their logic,
light left a supernova, traveled for 168,000 years and arrived at
earths telescopes in February of 1987. One can test and explore their
first hypothesis and show it a good theory, but their second
hypothesis makes our God a deceiver. Our Creator, our Lord Jesus
Christ, revealed that he created all things in six-days and rested on
the seventh. His revelation shows this creation act occurred in 4,000
BC. Trust Christ. The Bible says, “For what if some did not
believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God
forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is
written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest
overcome when thou art judged” (Romans 3:3-4). Blind faith is
perfectly adequate for a true believer. Blind faith, however, does
not give a logical answer to the naysayers who surround us. In this
instance the theories of relativity can be of great help. One need
not understand Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity to
gain
solace. But just comprehending them will improve one's stance on
God’s sure foundation. That more sure stance will certainly
frustrate any naysayers that one might contend with. Contend for the
faith, give an answer for the hope that is in you. Exhort and
convince the gainsayers. (Jude 1:3, I Peter 3:15, Titus 1:9)
Comprehending these theories of relativity can help.
Albert
Einstein wrote the book on Relativity. It is titled
“Relativity.”
Rather than send one off to the library, or to Amazon.com, this work
is a re-write of his excellent explanation. He wrote so that
university students would comprehend, and so they could understand.
He wrote to Bachelor of Science students; this author, in this
effort, writes to the high school graduate. He wrote with exacting
depth and clarity about the theories he spent his life exploring;
this author, writes with less clarity, but much less math, and if one
bear with me in this effort the goal can be obtained.
Relative
Laws of Euclidean Geometry
Some
simple concepts can introduce relativity to the rational thinker. If
one recalls anything about Euclidean Geometry, they recall that it
dealt with formal proofs and the building of a staircase of
knowledge, one step at a time. A first exercise involved the axiom
that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
That axiom, assumed as always true, is now known as only relative. It
depends on the coordinate system in use. Going from my home to
Dundee, New York, is conceivably shorter as the crow flies. They
don’t have to go around the lake and two mountains. Going
from my
home to London, England, however, leaves the simplified plane
geometry, a simplified plane where axioms are conceived to always be
true, and enters into a spherical geometry where the simple axiom
fails. As the crow flies on a straight line, is no longer the
shortest distance to London, England.
Notice
further in this spherical coordinate system that if I walk due east
until I get to the other side of the globe I am still walking due
east. If I walk due north until I get to the other side of the globe,
however, I have changed my reference (not my direction) and I am
walking due south. So too, if I walk due north until I hit the pole,
then turn right I am going south. If I continue to the equator and
then turn right, I am going west, and if I continue on I can
eventually turn right to end where I started. It is thus possible, in
a spherical coordinate system, to pace out a triangle that contains
three 90 degree turns. One cannot do that in plane geometry, there
are laws of Euclidean Geometry which forbid it. Those laws are
relative, here, relative to one's coordinate system. Space is not the
final frontier, but space is surely found in some sort of a spherical
coordinate system. Space is therefore, removed from the laws that one
contrives in a simple planar coordinate system.
Relative
Laws of Motion
Albert
Einstein
loves the following type of illustration, bear with me if I do too. A
man is in a car of a speeding train, he tosses a ball up in the air,
he perceives it going straight up, stopping, and falling straight
back down where he catches it. On a platform watching the train go
by, a man perceives the same ball arching up in a circle, then
arching back down. It follows an arching pattern. One can conceive
that straight line motions are relative to the relative motions
between two simple plane coordinate systems. If one of these moving
coordinate systems was a spherical coordinate system, or if one
coordinate system was rotating in reference to the ball, even more
profound dimensions of relativity would be added to the rise and fall
of the ball. Conceiving all this relativity is profound, and this
analysis has, thus far, been kept profoundly simple. Take yet another
step into relativity.
Relative
Laws of Velocity
What
has been examined so far, the relativity our reference system, has
been conceivable with only a little strain on our understanding. In
considering velocity, and particularly the velocity of light, that
strain might increase, so bear with this next illustration. One
cannot improve on Albert Einstein’s explanations and
illustrations
in this arena. To follow them, however, we need to grapple with the
Lorentz Transformation.
I want to make this understandable to those who do not have four
years of college math in their background, but I want to keep
Einstein’s exactness intact. The Lorentz Transformation
transforms
from a fixed frame to a moving frame. That transformation, shown
below, details how a moving frame, designated with prime signs ( ' ),
moves with velocity v, in the
x
direction. Notice
that the x dimension and the time dimension both warp
because
of this velocity.
Figure
15 Fixed Frame to Moving Frame of the Lorentz Transformation
The
Lorentz Transform equations help those who follow them, but
Einstein's illustration will help all of us. Imagine a mile long
train hurtling down a straight section of track at a breakneck speed,
a man in the caboose, positioned so he can see the engine is just now
hurtling past a man on the bank who can also view the engine. At that
instant a bolt of lightning strikes a tree right beside the engine.
Get this scenario firmly implanted in the brain. The engine and the
lightning bolt are exactly one mile from both men. The train and the
man in the train's caboose are moving at breakneck speed relative to
the man on the bank. Analyze the next few microseconds very
carefully.
The
flash of light emitted from the lightning bolt begins a one mile trek
towards the man on the bank. As it speeds towards him the man on the
train is speeding towards the flash of light and gets closer to it. I
have the train traveling at breakneck speed so one can easily concede
that when the flash of light intercepts the man on the train, he is
significantly closer to the lightning struck tree than is the
stationary man on the bank. One would then rationalize that the man
on the train would see the flash of light an instant or two before
the man on the bank sees the flash of light. Albert
Einstein’s
special theory of relativity says, no, no, that is not so. The speed
of light is finite and constant at a speed we call c.
It is
not at all relative to the velocity of the reference sending it or
receiving it. It is forever constant at speed c.
This
will not make rational sense. The illustrations just given, Albert
Einstein’s illustration without all the mathematics, is about
to
show some things that truly boggle the mind. The whole concept hangs
on two principles. First, that light does have a finite velocity. My
older brother said he could click off the light and be under the bed
covers before it got dark in the room. I was young, so I believed
him. I have never had trouble with the fact that light takes time to
propagate through space.
I
was told in high school that the first rays of Sun light that hit me
in the morning, left that burning ball of helium and took eight
minutes to get to Earth before I could see them. For me this is
perfectly conceivable, but since I have run into Christians who did
not believe it as quickly, I have included a later chapter on how one
discovers and measures the speed of light. It is fascinating.
Understand here that it does take a measurable amount of time for
light to propagate through open space; it does have a measurable
velocity. The second principle is a little more profound.
Light
travels through open space at a constant rate c, no
matter how
fast you might be traveling in that open space. Let me illustrate
this truth with a story. When I was a teen I had two best friends,
Chucky and Jimmy. Chucky not only had a driver's license, he also had
a Chevy. Steuben County had put brand new stop signs on every rural
dirt road in our township. We, as teens, found it entertaining to hit
them with a rock as Chucky drove by at 50 mph. I am not a pitcher,
but say I can chuck a rock out of a car window at 20 mph.
One
night it was Jimmy’s shot. He flung the rock from the back
window
of the Chevy. The rock hit the sign at 70 mph. That makes sense since
the car was going 50 mph, and Jimmy's rock was thrown at 20 mph. The
rock, thrown from the car, is going 70 mph when it hits the sign. The
sign catches the rock on its very edge and wings it back at us at 70
mph, but we are still going 50 mph. The rock goes by my ear at 120
mph, that’s its velocity going south plus our velocity going
north.
When it hit Jimmy in the back seat of the Chevy and broke his jaw and
two molars, it was going very, very fast. Normal relative velocities
add, but light is not at all like that.
When
the beam from Chucky's headlight hits a stop sign, the light waves
hit at speed c. If he
is going 300 mph, or 2 mph, the light propagates from his high beams
at speed c,
and
hits the sign at speed c. One
would think that it would hit the stop sign at speed c
+ 300 mph.
It does not, it only goes at its top speed c,
and the 300
mph cannot add to that speed. Thus the
light leaves his high beam and hits the stop sign at speed c,
even if he
drives by at 300 mph. If this headlight
were attached to a spacecraft traveling at an inconceivable speed,
the light waves leave the lens at speed c
and they intercept any incoming meteorite at speed c.
If the spacecraft had taillights, light waves travel off to the rear
at speed c.
The
speed of light in space is forever a constant, and c
=
300,000,000 m/sec. Whether it is leaving
an object or bumping an object its speed is c.
This is not intuitive. One can get a running head start and throw a
javelin faster and farther. When one gets a running head start with a
flash light, however, the beam of light does not go any faster.
Relative velocity does not add or subtract from the speed of light.
Okay, let’s go back to Einstein’s lightning flash
and the
speeding train.
The
speed of light is constant no matter the relative speed of any other
object. The flash of light leaves the burning tree at speed c,
then a microsecond later, it intercepts the man on the bank at speed
c.
But
at
the exact same time it travels the
shorter distance to the man in the caboose. The distance is shorter
because the train moved towards the strike for that microsecond. At
the same instant that the man on the bank sees the flash, the man in
the caboose sees the flash. For the man in the caboose, the light
traveled the 1 mile from the engine to the caboose. For the man on
the bank the light traveled the 1 mile from the tree to his position.
You and I know that the distance from the tree to the caboose was
less than 1 mile because of its relative motion. The light traveled
less distance at the constant velocity, and thus it took more time.
Time and distance are relative while the speed of light is forever
constant. Thus time warped and distance warped to accommodate the
constant speed of light.
Without
laboring through all the proofs and all the math, let us understand
the two things that happen when things start moving very, very fast.
First, the relative distance for a moving object begins to shrink. At
conceivable speeds it is an imperceptible shrinkage, but that 100 mph
fastball is actually smaller than that official hardball held by the
umpire. Some batter might swear to that, but it is, as we say,
imperceptible at our minute velocities.
Probably
the most conceivable example of this truth is found in Bohr’s
model
of the atom. Protons and neutrons are particles in the nucleus, and
the electrons are moving very very fast in a synchronized orbit.
Let's propose that the proton and the electron are the same size but
the electron is moving around the nucleus at such breakneck speed
that it appears to be imperceptibly small. A nuclear physics example
might not intrigue everyone, but it is an exciting illustration for
some of us. Also consider that the seconds of time must tick by
slower for the moving object. Again, this is not intuitively obvious,
nor is it naturally conceivable. The shrinking distance and the
slowing time clock are both understood by abstract reasoning. We have
no concrete example where this might be observed.
When
God said, “Let there be light,” he created light
with some
powerful and astounding attributes. Recall that he said, “It
was
good.” The naturalist who pretends that God’s
creation came into
existence by simple natural causes is befuddled by some of these more
complex considerations. The bombardier beetle might embarrass their
biological survival of the fittest hypothesis, but Einstein’s
theory of relativity can confound everything they stand on;
especially their supposition that it took 13 billion years for some
light rays to reach our Hubble Telescope. This is some real profound
stuff.
Okay,
at this point if one can comprehend the Lorentz Transformation
equations, go read Einstein’s Book,
“Relativity.” The rest will
struggle through another illustration that might make a purist of
purer mathematicians angry, but it clarifies the concept well.
The
lightning flash leaves the burning tree and speeding train engine at
speed c. It travels
the one mile to the fellow on the embankment in time t.
When he sees the flash it hits him at speed c.
It also travels the one mile to the fellow in the caboose in time t. A mile is 5,280 feet. Let us imagine
that the fellow on the train
moved that 280 feet in time t.
No matter what his relative velocity might be, the light hits him at
speed c, and traveled
one mile to do it. For the moving man the mile is shorter, and the
time clicks by slower. Herein is the profound point, it takes time t
to get to him. The only way that this is possible is if the one mile
distance for the moving man is shorter by the 280 feet. But the speed
is still constant, so the distance, to him is still one mile. Also
consider that the flash of light arrives at both men at the same
instant. We reason that it should have reached the moving man sooner,
or in less time. The only way that this could be, is if time ticks at
a slower rate in the moving train.
This
imperative is
not intuitive. It is not perceptible in any natural phenomena that
man can observe. It is unnatural, but very real, and in God’s
creation, very good. Let us say it again, when one man is moving
towards the coming flash of light, relative to the other man, the
moving man's clock ticks slower than the stationary man’s
clock,
and the moving man's mile is shorter than the stationary man's mile.
The greater the relative velocity, the slower the moving man's clock
ticks, and the shorter is his mile. That is profound. Now let's
approach the speed of light; it is a boundary condition where
distance disappears, and time stops. That is more profound. It is
the subject of a myriad of science fiction stories. It is not,
however, a subject treated at all by an atheistic evolutionist and it
throws a wrench in their mandate for billions of years.
When
there is relative motion and a constant speed of light, distance is
relative and warps, and time becomes relative and clicks by
differently, i.e. time is warped. Since the speed of light c,
is the distance divided by time, one would expect this inverse
relationship. The ratio of the changes can be more exactly found with
the Lorentz Transformation equations. In this setting, without all
the mathematics, a Christian can see that light emitted by a star
hurtling through space at an unimaginable speed, does not necessarily
reach our little planet on anyone's artificially simplified time
schedule. Our little planet is also hurtling through space, and in a
solar system which is hurtling through space. Be assured that with
all this relative motion there is little scientific basis to
presume that a super nova, occurred 168,000 years ago just because it
may have been 168,000 light years away. Just Albert
Einstein’s
special theory of relativity assure us that the atheist's argument
about time has questionable scientific basis. The warping of space
and time is terminology introduced in this analysis of the special
theory of relativity, but the full blown warping of the
time-space-matter continuums receives its full application in the
general theory of relativity when the affects of gravity are
included. Atheistic evolutionists only measure things with
Newtonian minds, in their limited Gaussian coordinates where the
speed of light times time gives us exact distances. Such is not
necessarily the case in the outer regions of God's universe.
We
do not, however, have the basis to refute all their thinking based on
only the special theory of relativity. We must take a step or two
into Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity in order
to
comprehend the enormity of God’s creation and the
exaggerated, over
simplified atheist's reasoning about time and space.
A
Constant Speed of Light “in Vacuo”
God
created light with this attribute, it travels “in
vacuo”
at a constant speed, and when it intercepts an object, no matter the
relative velocity of that object, the light is intercepted at that
constant speed. The speed of light being roughly 186,000 miles per
second (300,000,000 m/sec) is not the amazing thing in this
attribute. The stunning discovery is that it intercepts each object
at that speed, regardless of any relative motion between objects.
That is so profound that I would ask the Bible believers to rehearse
the previous illustration again, and then say out loud again,
“As
one approaches the speed of light distance disappears, and time
stands still.” That is just the special theory of relativity.
The
man on a speeding train and the man setting at the railroad crossing
sees the flash of the lightning at the exact same instant. Let's say
the flash traveled the mile to the crossing and the half mile to
speeding passengers at a constant speed and hit each eye after 0.186
micro seconds. Such a thing is only possible if the relative motion
of the train caused the measure of distance and the tick of the clock
to be shortened. If one has comprehended that, one comprehends Albert
Einstein’s special theory of relativity. And we did it
without all
the mathematics involved for understanding the Lorentz Transform
equations. Motion makes distance shrink and time stretch. Go figure
(or in Hebrew Selah).
Let me say it once more, slowly. Motion makes distance shrink and
time stretch. That is profound.
Armed
with this knowledge one might try racing all the faster to their next
late appointment. The more relative speed one has, the shorter the
distance and the slower their watch ticks. One could shave micro
inches off their distance and nano seconds off of their tardiness.
Please do not try this at home, leave it for your next space voyage.
Likely at the Rapture.
Gravity
in the More General Theory
Comprehending
the more general theory of relativity without all the math, Galilean
reference domains, and Gaussian coordinate systems was never
attempted by Albert Einstein. It is attempted here because the author
is a systems engineer and not a genius. Einstein’s special
theory
is called special, because it only answers for the special, or most
simple, situation. Even so, it has brought all the classical laws of
mechanical motions under great suspicion. It has shown that such
rules do not likely apply in the outer regions of the expanding
space. It is becoming obvious that there are some
“fundamental
difficulties attending classical celestial mechanics.” Albert
Einstein documents these in his Chapter 30 “Cosmological
Difficulties of Newton’s Theory.”
Indeed, all the general laws of mechanics and motions are now more
like Jello nailed to crumbling walls than like firmed up laws
applicable throughout God’s universe.
To
take a step closer to the more general theory of relativity one must
deal with gravity and its very complex relationship to speed and
light. Einstein does this with two remarkable illustrations that will
be utilized without all of his mathematics.
Consider
first that one's velocity in space, interacting with the constant
speed of light, has revealed some profound principles about time and
distance. These principles take hold when traveling through
God’s
vast universe. Ergo, all of our Newtonian and Galilean laws need to
be revisited. They are “Law” for only the most
simplistic
coordinates in our own little solar system, which is likely hurtling
through space, all while undergoing great acceleration. Now consider
that acceleration, as we understand it, causes a change in a bodies
velocity. It was shown previous that a relative velocity changes both
time and distance. Note the dynamics we are about to encounter. A
velocity changes space and time as we understand them, acceleration
is a changing velocity, and thus it changes the changes of both the
space and the time continuums. Go figure.
Gravity
makes acceleration. The units for an acceleration are distance per
time squared. The gravity, here on God’s Earth, causes an
acceleration on a falling rock equivalent to 32 feet per second
squared. Put a pin in two thoughts here, #1 Gravity produces
acceleration and #2 acceleration has units containing time squared.
Recall from a previous chapter that squaring an imaginary number
produces a real component and that God’s universe has ample
applications for imaginary numbers in both time and space. Hold that
thought for a later more in depth consideration. Let’s now
explore
some concepts about gravity.
O
LORD, how manifold
are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full
of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things
creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the
ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in
due season. That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine
hand, they are filled with good. Thou hidest thy face, they are
troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to
their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and
thou renewest the face of the earth.
The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice
in his works. He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth
the hills, and they smoke. I will sing unto the LORD as long as I
live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My
meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD. Let
the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no
more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD (Psalm
104:24-35).
Gravity
produces acceleration and acceleration produce gravity. Albert
Einstein spent much of his genius focused on the phenomena of
gravity. Ponder with him that the inertial mass of a body is
identical to the gravitational mass of a body and begin to see his
fascination. In his circle every rational mind that is worth its salt
must ask the question, “Why is this so?” In other
circles there
are rational minds who never pondered gravity at all. I would like to
welcome some readers to Albert’s world for these next few
pages of
this work.
Albert
pictures a room placed in the outer reaches of space. A man and the
room furnishings float about in weightlessness until a rope is
attached to a hook on the top of the room. Albert Einstein colorfully
states it as, “To the middle of the lid of the (room) is
fixed
externally a hook with rope attached, and now a
‘being’ (what
kind of being is immaterial to us) begins pulling at this with a
constant force. The (room) together with the observer (and its
contents) then begins to move ‘upwards’ with a
uniformly
accelerated motion.”
Picture
now what happens inside the room. The man and room furnishings, which
were previously weightless, “fall” to the
“floor” of the
room. The man stands, straightens up the chair, table and lamp, and
perceives that he has been placed in some sort of gravitational
field. He reaches into his pocket, pulls out a quarter and tosses it
lightly in the air to assess its “weight.” He holds
it at eye
level, releases it and watches it “fall” to the
floor and bounce
under the table. Indeed, this is a gravitational field just
like I
knew on planet earth. He looks outside to see what is holding
up
his room and sees the hook and rope. His room is hanging by this rope
in a gravitational field. It is all so obvious.
As
an observer, outside of the room, one knows that the man is wrong.
There is no gravitational field. There is only a constant force
producing continual acceleration. One must sympathize with his
blunder however. Every thing that the man observes in his room is
identical to what we might observe while hanging in a room here in
Earth’s gravitational field. Inertial mass and gravitational
mass
are indeed identical properties. Ergo, gravity is forever directly
connected to an acceleration of mass.
Consider
now the far reaching consequences of this relationship. If a relative
velocity causes space to shrink and time to slow down, what might a
relative acceleration do? With his illustration Albert Einstein
forever links acceleration with gravity. Given the special theory of
relativity, consider that acceleration, being an increase in a
relative velocity, would bring about both an increasing shrinkage in
space and an increasing lagging in time. Without walking through all
his math and complex transformations we have conceptually gone from
the special theory to a more general consideration that includes
gravity. Stated again, a gravitational field (acting as would an
invisible acceleration) causes a change in time and a change in
distance. The greater the gravitational field, the greater the
changes. In this effort I cannot communicate all the complexity of
the relationships between the tick of a clock, the size of a
measuring rod, a relative motion, the speed of light, and now the
effects of a gravitational field. I only wish to convey that God
created, out of nothing, a very complex relationship. When he
transformed a tiny spec of his energy into a time, space, and matter
continuum, he left a relativity between each continuum. Mere humans
can only begin to comprehend the interrelations that are unfolding
around us every day. Indeed, the heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament sheweth his handwork!
When
mere man wholly denies the revelation of the LORD God, and sets his
heart on proving that God’s universe came into being by
nothing but
natural processes, then “He that sitteth in the heavens shall
laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”
Christians, I mean the true believers, not the Roman religionist, can
lighten up, and laugh a little. God does hold the Ph.D.s in derision.
The professed atheists with their natural models, promoting natural
selection and random chances taking billions of years, are all in
derision. Government sponsored space probes are sent out to find the
origins of life, and the cause of the big bang. These constitute
their foolishness and their derision. They have not allowed for a
single aspect of these theories of relativity and the effects on
their long imagined history of time. Warp drives in Star Trek, Luke
Skywalker's time dilation, and Interstellar's worm holes, expose
more true science than Darwinian evolutionist portraying billions of
years in fictitious time. Look at the detailed research because of
the fictitious Luke and Leah twins:
According
to
calculations in a paper from the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science
Topics — published by geeky physics students at the
University of
Leicester — time dilation means that the Skywalker twins
cannot
possibly be the same age anymore.
The
paper gives an
example from The Empire Strikes Back:
“Consider the
separate journeys that both twins make to Cloud City. Leia travels
from the neighbouring system of Anoat, while Luke travels from the
much more distant planet Dagobah. Luke’s journey was ~7 days
travel
in his own reference frame, which was estimated to be 25 times longer
than Leia’s, making her journey 0.28 days (6.72 hours) in her
own
reference frame.”
If
Leia, in the
Millennium Falcon, is traveling at 99.999% the speed of light* and
Luke is traveling in an X-wing at 99.995% (the small difference
matters a lot), then during Leia’s 7-hour trip the galaxy
ages 62.6
days, and during Luke’s 7-day trip outside observers age 701
days
(nearly 2 years). This means that when the twins first see each other
on Lando’s floating palace, Luke is now 638 days younger than
his
twin. Oh, and that also means Darth Vader was waiting at that dinner
table for a long, long time.
Sci-fi
shows more credibility than the atheistic evolutionist and God holds
the evolutionist in derision, i.e. contemptuous jeering laughter. Now
the atheistic evolutionists have found that God has placed a
black-hole in the middle of every galaxy he created. What stifles
outright laughter is the depraved tenacity which causes them to hold
to their flawed Godless hypothesis. The deception they have pumped
into society is also troubling. They have so invested in their fraud
that they can only save face because they started their lies in our
public kindergartens. But there is more bad news for them in this
arena.
Rotation
Produces Gravity and Gravity Produces Rotation
Psalm
9:1 I will
praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy
marvelous works.
It
has already been established that going from a plane coordinate
system, where laws of Euclidean Geometry are built and comprehended,
into a spherical coordinate system, allows for the bending and
warping of some rigid laws which, in their place, have been held as
unbreakable. The special theory of relativity works via the Lorentz
Transform, in a rigid planer coordinate system that contains no
rotational motions. Since stars and planets play out in a spherical
coordinate system, rotating on an axis, and orbiting around a
rotating, and orbiting sun or black hole, let's rotate things a
little. The special theory of relativity warps time and distance in
the rigid planer coordinate system, it goes much further when
rotations are included.
Before
rotating allow me to express a word about what I expect this analysis
to do for us. In locked horn disagreement we have two world views.
The one says, “In the beginning God created,” the
other says,
“There was no real beginning, and everything is here by
simple
natural processes.” There are a myriad of mixed multitudes
wandering around between these two views, and they say something
like, “Can’t we all get along?” and
“Don’t we all worship
the same god anyway?” Placating to this mixed multitude moves
a
Bible believer away from the truth. There is only a precious remnant
still staunchly standing on the truth, and this effort is promoting
that those standing there have nothing to be embarrassed about.
Only
Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity has put some
natural
laws, laws that big bang evolutionists use in their “all
natural –
no Supernatural” hypothesizing, on unstable ground. Add to
all that
some analysis of what happens when rotation is added and the
naturalist's unstable ground begins a sort of twisted shaking.
Rotation is related to gravity; consequentially it is a major
consideration in the general theory of relativity. Their whole house
of cards might go tumbling when the atheistic, all-naturalistic,
evolutionists experience relative twisting and shaking of their
ground rules. It will not, of course, actually fall. They will steady
it with care. It is held together by diabolical hands that they
cannot see. For the believer, however, I would provide the more
assurance that when one is standing on God’s Word as truth,
they
dare not lean on, or stand close to this house of cards. In
God’s
final chapter it will all fall.
What’s
more, it is not the believer’s job to knock down the
atheists’
house of cards nor to put them in derision. God will do that in his
own time. The believer is commissioned to preach the gospel to every
creature. It behooves the believer to be wise about the
world’s
rebellion and deceit, and to expose it, and even refute it soundly
when it comes to preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. In
that vein there is nothing in God's universe that is not caught up in
some sort of rotation, so consider this important aspect in Albert
Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Consider
again Albert Einstein’s little room in the outer reaches of
space.
Again a very long rope is attached to the hook at the top, but this
time instead of applying a force, there is a
“being” (what kind
of being is still immaterial to us) who begins to swing the room
around in a giant circle. The man and the room furnishings, which
were previously floating about in weightlessness,
“fall” to the
“floor” of the room. The man stands, straightens up
the chair,
table, and lamp, and perceives that he has been placed in some sort
of gravitational field. He reaches into his pocket, pulls out a
nickel and tosses it lightly into the air to assess its
“weight”.
He holds it at chin level, releases it and watches it
“fall” to
the floor, and bounce under the chair. Indeed it is a gravitational
field just like he knew on the planet Earth. He looks outside to see
what is holding up his room and sees the hook and rope. His room is
hanging by this rope in this mysterious gravitational field. It is
all so obvious.
As
an observer outside the room, one knows that the man is wrong. There
is no gravitational field. There is only a constant rotation
producing a centrifugal force, and this force is perceived as
gravity. Everything that the man observes inside this room is
identical to what one might observe while standing in a room here in
Earth’s gravitational field. Not only are inertial mass and
gravitational mass identical, but now gravity, acceleration of a
mass, and somehow the rotation of a mass around a center point are
all profoundly interrelated in some kind of interconnection. In this
profound relationship one produces, or mimics, the other, and the
other mimics, or produces, the one.
Take
pause for a
moment here for the Bible believing audience to ponder the
profoundness in what was just developed. Gravity, acceleration and
rotation are interconnected in a complex triune relationship. In this
triune relationship they cannot be separated from each other in
effect, but they are separate and distinguishable entities. Such
triune relationships are everywhere in the exploration of
God’s
created universe. They are completely and forever wasted on the
secular genius like Stephen Hawking who may lack the diabolical
gumption to completely deny the existence of God, but is not student
enough of God’s holy inflatable, inerrant Word to capture the
connection to his trinity. We are considering the complex
interrelationships between God’s three-dimensional space
continuums, God’s three states of matter in continuums, and
God’s
three tenses of time in continuums. The serious student of the LORD
God, who comprehends his own likeness in body, soul, and spirit,
collects these triune relationships in the back corners of his mind.
Mass, space and time are able to disappear into gravity in a
transformation barely comprehended. Such profound trinity
relationships are not coincidence for the Bible student. An
incomplete, but awesome compilation of such trinity relationships is
given by Dr. Grady in his book, “Given by
Inspiration.”
But here, take particular note that mass, space, and time interrelate
with gravity via this barely comprehensible theory of relativity.
Consider
where all this theorizing about relativity leaves the sincere student
of the Bible. We have surmised that changing relative velocity
changes our time and space reference; acceleration even more so
changes our time and space reference, and it produces gravity
effects; rotation produces gravity effects as well, and it changes
our time and space reference. Lastly gravity itself, because of its
direct relationship with mass and acceleration,
changes
our time and space reference. Time, mass, space, and energy are all
relative. When one is squeezed it gushes out into another. Relativity
declares that the relationships between these entities is very
complex and not nearly understood by the normal finite mind.
The
fact that time itself is tangled into every consideration of these
relativity equations brings us tremendous insight. God said,
“Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is
with
the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day” (2
Pet 3:8).
When man takes one small step outside of our own solar system, what
he fathoms about distance and what he assumes about time is nothing
more than speculation. When he steps outside of our own Milky Way
galaxy and his wandering telescope explores distant galaxies,
evolutionists do not consider God's words, “For a thousand
years in
thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the
night” (Ps 90:4).
These
theories of relativity wherein space and time, mass and energy
intersect intrinsically, are not given the least consideration by
science-so-called. For a Bible believer it is ennobling to make these
observations about black-holes and relativity. Science-so-called
cannot accept that God created the world out of nothing, nor will
they grapple with Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. They make
observations inside God's amazing universe, but do not consider
relativity of space and time at all. Consequently, the black-holes
that God created as the centerpiece of each of his galaxies, have
them in derision. The best explanation that they can muster for these
black-holes, is that an anomaly of gravity is compressing vast
quantities of mass into a dot smaller than the period at the end of
this sentence. They go on to suppose this over compressed hyper
gravitized spec is somehow setting itself up for a big bang of its
own. Perhaps it will spawn into its own randomly created universe
someday, they say. Their wild hypothesizing (please don't call it
theorizing) about these newly discovered black-holes (only discovered
as centerpieces in each galaxy in 1992)
demonstrates the depth of their derision.
Consider
what the Bible believer armed with Albert Einstein's theories of
relativity can theorize about black-holes. God spoke the universe
into existence and created it out of nothing, and God said so. By him
all things consist and he said so. If he should take some of the
matter he created, unravel it, turn it into nothing, and allow some
of its energy to escape as an unparalleled gravitational field, one
might observe a black-hole. And one might hear the LORD and his
anointed sitting in the heavens with a laugh aimed at the atheistic
evolutionist.
Since
the day in 1960 when this author was quickened (Eph 2) and had my
blinded eyes open to see (John 9), I have had no problem conceiving
and believing this scenario. Since I understood Albert Einstein's
theories of relativity, I have been able to add considerable reason
and logic to that faith. Out of nothing, God created time, space, and
matter. They are all interrelated and he can display them or
dismantle them in any fashion he chooses, for “by him all
things
consist” (Col 1:17). Further, consider what science-so-called
speculates about time and space. Every time they build a bigger
telescope, which can see into a more distant galaxy, they speculate
that their hypothesized big bang must have happened a million or more
years earlier than they thought previously. They speculate so,
because they have no regard for Albert Einstein's theories of
relativity. They suppose light, in the outer regions of the universe,
follows the same linear laws that it follows here on Earth. That sort
of reckoning has led them to believe that the universe is more than a
billion years old! They insist, that since their estimation puts a
sited galaxy a billion light years away, then it took a billion years
for that light to get here. Further, they reckon that when they stare
at the galaxy, they are looking back in time, and eventually in so
doing, they might discover how the big bang started all this. They
are in derision.
Time
and space, matter and energy are not simple linear relationships as
evolutionists suppose. They are complex, interrelated, relative
relationships. When one is squeezed it gushes out into another. When
one uses the Creators time formula on the science-so-called's linear
time estimation, a billion years is only a million days, and it only
took 2,700 years for that light to get here. I'm just saying, the
Bible believer has nothing to apologize for when he tenaciously holds
to God's word. It says that the LORD God created the world in 6 days,
and he did it 6,019
years ago.
Most
scholars despise Ussher, this author loves him. Scholars scoffed
Ussher's genius and discarded all his work because he projected the
precise date of creation. His exuberant and exhaustive 17thrd
of
4004 BC. Do not dismiss Ussher's meticulous investigations because he
was enthusiastic about his profound mathematics. He understood Bible
dates and calendars far better than most, and he believed more Bible
than any of those scoffing modernist scholars. If one does not want
to hold to Ussher's logic that all the planets would have been neatly
aligned at creation then let them come up with their own reasoning,
but his chronology of years is still impeccable.
In
side note, modernist opinion points out that “Ussher’s
precise
reckoning is an illusion, because of known gaps in the genealogies
and translation errors. For example, the birthdate of many patriarchs
was changed by 100 years by the scribes that produced the Septuagint.
Other chronologists have estimated the age of creation to be in a
range of 6-10,000 years.” This author can contend
fluently that
the Septuagint is a farce, and a farce is “A comedy
characterized
by broad satire and improbable situations,” or, “A
mixture of
ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and
onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs!”
The Septuagint is of the world, produced by Egypt in Alexandria.
Anything produced by the world, in Egypt, God's portrayal of the
world, should not be trusted by the believer.
Allow me to reiterate Ussher's two strong points, he understood
Bible dates and calendars, and he believed his Bible. That is to say,
he believed his Hebrew Old Testament and his Greek New Testament
without any criticism, lower or higher, source or redaction, textual
or form! None, notta, zip. ALL Bible criticisms attack the veracity
of the inerrant, infallible, verbally inspired Holy Word of God.
There is no cause whatsoever to trust anything from Alexandria Egypt
especially what is called the Septuagint. Anything recovered from
Egypt is tainted with worldliness, to include every copyright
modernist English bible version derived from Wescott-Hort and
Septuagint. When young Earth enthusiasts extend their scholarly
opinions beyond God's 6,000 year old record they do so because of
modernist opinions and Bible criticisms.
When
one comprehends Albert Einstein's theories of relativity, a 6,019
year old universe has more compelling evidence than does any
multi-billion year estimate. Trust God's word. Nay sayers will
naysay. Blessed are all they that put their trust in God's Son (cf.
Psalm 2:12). “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth,
because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and
hast revealed them unto babes” (Matt 11:25). God is specific
and
exact, “He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and
hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7).
Gravity
Effects Time
Because gravity causes acceleration, and acceleration increases
relative velocity, gravity changes the rate of a clock and the size
of an object. Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity advances
that relative velocity, because the speed of light is constant, and
because of the Lorentz transform, causes both the ticks of a clock
and the distance of measure to vary. This is a profound discovery,
and now a proven truth. One of the more obscure tentacles of this
truth is that gravity itself must change the ticking rate of a clock,
and the distances we perceive as real.
The
non genius will not generally get as enamored with gravity as Albert
Einstein was, but it is well worth some consideration. Albert
Einstein was enthralled with discovering the intricacies of gravity.
God created the universe and then glued it together with gravity. One
speaks of a gravitational field as if they understand it like one
does an electrical field or magnetic field, but they cannot steer or
control gravity like they do electric and magnetic fields. The most
enthralling thing about gravity is that it is in perfect union with a
mass's inertia. Why? How? What is the law which connects them?
In
the 1830's Michael Faraday assembled some of Gods laws of
electro-magnetic induction. In the 1860's James Maxwell discovered
the equations which united God's electricity and magnetism. They are
still called Maxwell's Equations, known and loved by every electrical
engineer. In the1880's Heinrich Hertz confirmed that light itself
followed Maxwell's equations and most often behaved itself like an
electro-magnetic wave. Hertz and Maxwell presumed that light always
followed their laws and equations.
It
was not until Albert Einstein reformulated Max Planck's early
twentieth century quantum mechanics into a more robust quantum theory
that they were shown wrong. That theory explained the photo electric
effect wherein previous laws were found somewhat inadequate. Sorta
like, what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, Albert Einstein accounted for with the theory of quantum
physics (Please excuse the theological parallel in that analogy, it
seemed appropriate).
But
the German genius of the 20th century, when he
pondered
gravity, was unable to quantify in law or in equations or in
principle, anything similar to Maxwell's tremendous breakthrough for
electromagnetic phenomena. As much as electronic forces were directly
connected to magnetic forces, so to should gravity and inertia
connect into what one might call Einstein's Equations. But alas, we
have no such understanding. Gravity, the glue that God uses to hold
his universe together, and inertia, the law that God uses to keep
bodies in motion... or not, is a mystery to finite man. All the
genius of Albert Einstein could not quantify the field effect of
gravity. He could not explain the propagation of gravity. He could
not measure the speed of gravity. The best that the genius could do
was slip gravity into his theory of relativity and conclude that
gravity warps time and space, light and distance, in a way that man
might never comprehend.
Gravity
changes time and distance and somehow the whole continuum of time, of
space and of matter, the three continuums God created out of nothing
with the first seven words of the Holy Bible. The three created
continuums are all connected to gravity with an uncertain relativity.
When Stephen Hawking publishes, “A Brief History of Time,
from the
Big Bang to Black Holes,” it is based on the perspective that
light
travels through the outer regions of space following the same laws
that light obeys in Earth's laboratories. That satisfies the
evolutionist, the atheist and the agnostic, but God, Albert Einstein
and I contend that somewhere out there, on the borders of a finite
universe, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a
single day. Gravity, the unquantified force in God's universe changes
the tick on a time clock, just as a relative velocity, and relative
acceleration does. It turns out, “the heavens declare the
glory of
Gods; and the firmament showeth his handwork” (Ps 19). The
atheist
who ignores the theories of relativity cannot begin to account for
the wonder that is out there.
century calculations of planet positions and his modulus seven math
is still undisputed. It caused Ussher to believe God began his
creation on an autumnal equinox on Sunday, October 23
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. . . RATE casts doubt on three
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. . . Radioisotope Dating
Methods. . . 136
. . . Relativity Changes Atomic
Clocks. . .
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. . . Cesium Clock Measures
Relativity Time
Changes. . .
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. . . Radioactivity, Relativity,
The Flood
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. . . Why Bother About the Age
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