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To: WhiskeyX

Well...those “time dilation areas” are subject to cosmically extreme conditions which tear apart anything existing there. It’s a great example that time is relative and matches the “to God, a day is as a millennium, and a millennium is as a day” verses which must be applied to understanding the literary devices used in the creation narrative. It’s a lousy explanation (which some have promoted) for imputing Earth with a 10,000 year existence (such a gravitational pocket would tear the planet apart to sub-atomic particles in microseconds).


30 posted on 03/19/2015 8:17:28 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: ctdonath2

” It’s a lousy explanation (which some have promoted) for imputing Earth with a 10,000 year existence (such a gravitational pocket would tear the planet apart to sub-atomic particles in microseconds).”

You are talking about the time dilation effect which takes place due to the acceleration of velocity within the hyper-gravitational field of a singularity or Black Hole. I was not.

The time dilation effect occurs everywhere. It occurs on the surface of the Earth, but the velocities here on the surface of the Earth are relatively miniscule with correspondingly miniscule changes in time dilation. Astronauts in orbit around the Earth have measured miniscule time dilation due to the higher orbital velocities. Hobbyists in Seattle, Washington have measured miniscule time dilation between their near sea level home and the lower gravitational afield atop the adjacent Mount Ranier heights.

Some of the most distant galaxies we can see with our telescopes have a velocity which is a substantial fraction of the speed of light. Because of their much greater velocity relative to our own Milky Way Galaxy, Sun, and Earth, all of the stars and planets in one of those speeding galaxies has experienced a much slower passage of time than we have experienced.

Understand, this has nothing to do with the matter which has passed into the event horizons of any singularities or Black Holes within those galaxies you have alluded to. We’re only talking about normal matter, stars, and planets within those galaxies and not subject to a hyper-gravitational field like a singularity.

The physical rule is quite simple. The greater the velocity of a body of matter as a fraction of the speed of light results in a slower passage of time for that body of matter. A person with a longevity of 100 years will therefore experience 100 years passage of time on his/her planet while the Earth and its inhabitants experience the passage of thousands, millions, or billions of years.


36 posted on 03/19/2015 8:41:12 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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