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Posted on 09/21/2010 8:30:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
BackgroundWind setdown is the drop in water level caused by wind stress acting on the surface of a body of water for an extended period of time. As the wind blows, water recedes from the upwind shore and exposes terrain that was formerly underwater. Previous researchers have suggested wind setdown as a possible hydrodynamic explanation for Moses crossing the Red Sea, as described in Exodus 14.
Methodology/Principal FindingsThis study analyzes the hydrodynamic mechanism proposed by earlier studies, focusing on the time needed to reach a steady-state solution. In addition, the authors investigate a site in the eastern Nile delta, where the ancient Pelusiac branch of the Nile once flowed into a coastal lagoon then known as the Lake of Tanis. We conduct a satellite and modeling survey to analyze this location, using geological evidence of the ancient bathymetry and a historical description of a strong wind event in 1882. A suite of model experiments are performed to demonstrate a new hydrodynamic mechanism that can cause an angular body of water to divide under wind stress, and to test the behavior of our study location and reconstructed topography.
Conclusions/SignificanceUnder a uniform 28 m/s easterly wind forcing in the reconstructed model basin, the ocean model produces an area of exposed mud flats where the river mouth opens into the lake. This land bridge is 3-4 km long and 5 km wide, and it remains open for 4 hours. Model results indicate that navigation in shallow-water harbors can be significantly curtailed by wind setdown when strong winds blow offshore.
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Parting the waters: Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape route
September 21, 2010
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
http://www2.ucar.edu/news/parting-waters-computer-modeling-applies-physics-red-sea-escape-route
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Let me check with the Bible..........yep, it says a strong wind from the East blew and created dry land between the waters......That cost me exactly 2 minutes of time and no money.....
Note to scientists: Regardless of what you say, in the end it was GOD’s WORK.
Interesting. This reinforces my conviction that the Almighty performs miracles, but He doesn’t do the impossible.
Interesting ping
Can’t get the html breaks to work and its too late to parse the problem so here goes. The trail Moses took across the Sinai is diagonally towards the bottom of the Sinai and at the bottom of the Gulf of Aquaba - this was/is a known and used passage and visible from aircraft/satellite heights (a wadi trail made during the seasonal flash floods) by traders to Arabia and further south along the Red Sea towards Yemen and the Arabian Sea. The Gulf of Aquaba is also considered part of the Red Sea. Now the zinger - today there are 2 VERY large basins on both sides of this “embarcation point/path across the water” from this place on the shores of Sinai across to Arabia. This area is also the northern extension of the African Rift Valley - which is a seismically expanding and deepening geological formation (cleaving off a section Africa in some future event and forming a new sea). This is also the reason the there is the Dead Sea just a 100+ miles from this same area above the Port of Aquaba. So using a little imagining and some archaeological work by Dr. Vendyl Jones -[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405787/posts] - if there was a seismic event “just about the time” Moses showed up AND this event was an opening of the sea floor such that a sea basin (another Dead Sea in the making ??)is formed [3-5000 ft deep and a narrow one at that, 30x60 miles and at this steep angles and depth, dimensions as of today)the event would look similarly to when a bathtub empties BUT because it occurs across this shallow water bridge(current info about this seafloor terrain)all the water would flow down into the forming basin until the basin “filled up” and the water would seek a new level with the other opposite basin and then cover the shallow “bridge head path”. This event would take at least a few days to complete the redistribution/filling of the new basin of the waters displaced. Dr. Jones has explored this area and has found enough evidence to satisfy the above descriptions of events. You can delve into his evidence here: http://www.bnainoah.net/VJRI/whoisvendyl.html So Yawuweh works in “interesting ways and He does seem to keep His men “informed as to what’s what”, when it matters. Nature works whether humans understand it or not.
NOPE.
NONSENSE.
INSUFFICIENT.
The Bible says . . . on dry land . . .
And, 4 hours is not enough time for that many people to pass.
Yeah, I really hate it when wind setdown parts the sea over there. Miracles on the other hand are always welcome...and much more common.
Thanks for the ping!
all this computer stuff is all well and good, but when you consider the only time in recorded history this ever happened was coincidentally the exact moment when Moses needed to pass, it kinda makes you wonder abotu all this computer generated stuff.
kinda like the walls of jericho.
additional:
Parting the waters:
Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape route (Physics of Moses)
UCAR ( University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
09/22/2010 | Carl Drews and Weiqing Han
Posted on 09/22/2010 7:16:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2594123/posts
"The question, centuries or even millennia old, as to where the Sea of Passage was, can be solved with the help of the inscription on the shrine. On the basis of certain indications in the text, Pi-ha-Khiroth, where the events took place, was on the way from Memphis to Pisoped." -- Immanuel Velikovsky, "Ages in Chaos", (1952)
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