I do enjoy them!
Posted on 03/03/2025 3:55:04 AM PST by Lazamataz
silly question! just ask any scientist and they’ll tell you that earth is the defacto center of the universe! it must be because every scientist is at the center of the universe.
I do enjoy them!
The correct answer is 3
I’ve come to the conclusion that modern science in it’s totality is bullshit, subject to current fads, trends, politics and profit. There is not even a scientific consensus as to whether certain vaccines are safe or whether eating eggs or butter is harmful or beneficial, despite decades of studies, pronounecments, and fear mongering. Trying to profess any knowledge of anything more complicated than basic nutrition such as the speed of light, the origin or age of the universe, or the attempting to disprove God’s creation is at least in my opinion pure speculative and profit seeking bullshit.
What if the “Big Bang” was a cluster munition instead of a MOAB?
It is a common problem here as well. We have six cats and they all know but won’t tell us!
Would that be the same concept as two masses approaching each other as an opposite? Like say two vehicles each traveling 60 Mph towards each other which would make the speed of an impact a true combined speed of 120 mph?
Even if Star A was travelling at the opposite direction of Star B, and even if it was traveling at the impossibly-fast speed of light, it could only be that the two stars are 26.6 billion light years apart.
Two times 13.8 billion is 27.6 billion, but what's a billion light years one way or the other?
I sure do like your explanation!
I’ve always felt there’s a contradiction unsaid on these dates. We know ‘space time’ includes that the ‘reality of time’ is dependent on mass & speed. That time is not experienced as some uniform rate. Can this be especially true if large masses are traveling extremely fast? Beyond our comprehension.
I’d assume Einstein had theories here. But I find it confusing to say something so far is ‘x billion years old’ - how do we know? Is that against some ‘universal time index’? Years being that which the Earth rotates around the Sun, in our local space time.
I think we still fundamentally misunderstand the effects of space-time in the formation of the universe and even our own solar system.
That said, I’ve only some basic college level physics knowledge...maybe somebody can enlighten me.
Now, there is an interesting question!
Yep. That is verifiable through the extent of the damage.
Oh yeah. I am very familiar with it. No one ever considers these physics when they are going 85 plus. “Well if I wreck it will be at only 85.” Not if it is a vehicle also doing 85 towards you, that is the combined speed of 170 Mph... And same at lower speeds “I’m only going 35” yeah but so is that vehicle headed at you and the impact is going to be a 70 Mph impact for both.
No, you are thinking like Laz and believing that the speed the thing is traveling should be the only variable.
You are both missing the fact that the medium they are traveling through is ALSO moving. (as described by the egg heads)
The speed of light is slower now because it has more to travel through.
Objects and light traveled through space that was not the same as space is here and now. The earlier, and thus farther, objects were traveling through less dense "fluid".
Like electricity, there's an initial spike before dropping to a steady flow. The spike can exceed the steady rate by exponential proportions.
And that is an answer that applies all over the place.
I get that too. It is like paddling around in a static pool but the whole static pool is on a barge floating down a river.
to be more clear...on a cosmic scale if two vehicle were traveling from opposite sides of the universe toward each other at 60 light years a second, they WOULD NOT collide at 120 light years a second. In fact, they would never collide at all...ever.
The universe is expanding at 3.2 million light years a second. This means that the longer they travel toward each other at 60 light years per second, the farther apart they would be.
God created the heavens and the earth. He created galaxies at great distances from each other.
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