According to modern
day physicists and astronomers, the time for light to reach the Earth
from the farthest object or star in the universe is approximately
14.5 billion years.
This means that even
if the speed of light travels at 300,000 km/s or (186,000 mi/s) Wikipedia, 2018), it means that
it would have taken 14 and ½ billion years for light to reach us,
here on earth. Meaning, then that such distant star or objects was
actually created that long ago.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
The question, for
Bible based scientists who believe in a recent creation that goes back to
no more than 6,000 literal years, then: Is the Bible wrong?
How can we justify
an object located at a distance of 14.5 billion light years away, that was created
only 6,000 years ago?
The answer is the
newly discussed theory of Variable Speed of Light. (Magueijo,
2003).
What does that
theory say ? A great number of modern day scientists are beginning to
question the idea that Einstein made so clear regarding the constancy
of the speed of light. They are beginning to wonder if indeed light’s
speed has slowed down since the beginning of Creation or as they call
it the Big Bang Theory.
Some have actually
have gone as far as to indicate that the speed of light could have
been infinitely large, that is, infinite at the beginning of the
Creation of the universe, of at the time of the Big Bang. For example
the journal Mother Board, stated in one of its recent articles “in
the late 1990s, a handful of physicists challenged one of the
fundamental assumptions underlying Einstein's theory of special
relativity: Instead of the speed of light being constant, they
proposed that light was faster in the early universe than it is
now. “ (Oberhaus,
2016a).
The validation of
such idea and or theory would make perfect sense if we were to
realize that according to the bible the earth and the universe were
only recently created, as early as 6,000 years ago.
Oberhaus identified
such possibility, from our point of view, when he wrote, “This
theory of the variable speed of light was—and still
is—controversial. But according to a new paper published in
November in the physics journal
Physical Review D, it could be experimentally tested in
the near future. If the experiments validate the theory, it means
that the laws of nature weren't always the same as what we experience
today and would require a serious revision of Einstein's theory of
gravity. “ (Oberhaus,
2016b)
Had the speed of
light been infinite at the time of Creation, then it would not matter
how far the most distant objects, measured by today’s standards
might seem to be. The fact is that if light was infinitely fast at
such time of Creation, then 14.5 billion years of time, according to
today’s present speed of light (300,000 km/second or 300 million meters/sec), would only be a
matter of an instant, perhaps a second or less to go from one part of
the universe to us here on Earth.
The implications are
serious, as Uniformitarianism would cease to have a place in today’s
evolutionary theories and would give way to the actual and correct
fact substantiating the Bible’s account of Creation that indeed the
universe, and humans are recent advents and not billions of years old
as they would have us naively believe.
References
Magueijo, J. (2003). Faster than the Speed of LIght. Penguin
Group.
Oberhaus, D. (2016). Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed,
and They’re Trying to Prove It. Motherboard. Retrieved from
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q87gk/light-speed-slowed
Footnotes:
According to Wikipedia:
Speed of light: 299,792,458 metres per second or 300,000 km/s (186,000 mi/s)
Copyright, Echeverria (2017). https://mauihomeschool.blogspot.com/
http://www.hawaiionlineuniversity.org/
Footnotes:
According to Wikipedia:
Speed of light: 299,792,458 metres per second or 300,000 km/s (186,000 mi/s)
Copyright, Echeverria (2017). https://mauihomeschool.blogspot.com/
http://www.hawaiionlineuniversity.org/
