Let there be light: NASA pic of how the universe became illuminated
Last scattering: The universe was dark for 300 million years and will remain a closed book
Light show: How re-ionisation turned the lights on in the universe
Posted on 07/31/2017 12:51:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
For the first 300,000 years after the Big Bang the rapidly expanding universe was dark and filled with neutral hydrogen gas doing nothing much.
But over the next half billion years the first stars and galaxies arrive through a process known as re-ionization – turning the lights on in the universe.
Using an amazing Dark Energy Camera which is part of the -meter Blanco Telescope, at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), in northern Chile, scientists have captured a picture of 23 of these young galaxies – the very dawn of visual time.
Arizona State University astronomers Sangeeta Malhotra and James Rhoads, working with international teams in Chile and China, are now attempting to find when the very first light illuminated the universe.
This dramatic moment, known as re-ionization, occurred sometime in the interval between 300 million years and one billion years after the Big Bang.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Let there be light: NASA pic of how the universe became illuminated
Last scattering: The universe was dark for 300 million years and will remain a closed book
Light show: How re-ionisation turned the lights on in the universe
Fools. Utter fools.
>>The universe was dark for 300 million years and will remain a closed book <<
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”
Not quite the book, was opened already.
>>Atheists tell us this was all “random”, and there is no God.
Fools. Utter fools. <<
Agreed. This also puts a hole in the “if you think the Universe is billions of years old you can’t be Christian” attempts at arguments.
What Big Bang?
“This dramatic moment, known as re-ionization”
Fiat lux.
Genesis 1:1-4 NASB
Just wow!
” in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God 3 All thjngs were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made 4 in Him was life and light was the life of men 5 and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not
John 1, KJV
The Word was information and it was God and it preceded and directed creation not chaos
Wasn't the concept of the big bang theory based around what we know understand as Laniakea and Perseus-Pisces Superclusters separating from one another?
Now we have named many Superclusters they are all separating from one another.
Doesn't this throw the "big bang theory" out the window?
No, it just slows it down a little bit, filling in the holes, as it were.....................
I had one of those once.
Worst car I ever had..............But it was fun............
The fool says in his heart there is no God...
Well, had there been anyone there to hear it, but there is no sound in space, but then space hadn’t been invented yet, nor was sound, so it’s kinda moot.......................
Scribbled on a public restroom wall:
“There is no God”....Joe.
“There is no Joe.”....God...................
Some have theorized that instead of ‘one’ Big Bang, there were ‘several’ Mini Bangs...........................
The Bible did NOT provide implementation details.
What do details matter if the Bible affirms information theory?
Large field-of-view camera with many special features combined for observations. Can “see” in a range of light outside human vision; but, light all the same and not something else. No dark matter to place one’s hands upon.
https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-des-project/instrument/the-camera/
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