We can screw around with time in the lab. A mathamaticly predictable variable property dependent on relative position and relative velocities with constant light speed.
2007-10-07 10:07:38 · 9 answers · asked by capekicks 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because we can and its entertaining.
Aviana
2007-10-07 10:09:51 · answer #1 · answered by aviana_snowwolfe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I side with you on that to a degree, but we lack proof that the Earth and Sun are slowing, which would account for time dilation.
To get to the Scientific View (which could be dead wrong) of the manefestation of things TIME DILATION would have to occur from the FIRST DAY to the SIXTH DAY
If we say the FIRST DAY to the FOURTH DAY is, indeed, equal to 8 billion years (and they match to this point, science says the Earth and Sun formed 4+ billion and the universe was started 13+ billion and that is 2/3 the way to today and on a six day creation day 4 (Earth and Sun formed) is 2/3 the way) we run into problems with the math on days 5 and 6.
The only way around this problem is to take time dilation into account and that the EARTH and SUN slowed and hence TIME slowed.
This is potentially a MEASURABLE occurance, but it would take hundreds of centures to measure.
It would require Carbon 13 and geological dating.
In theory at least.
You would have CORE samples in 10,000 years that wouldn't match earlier ones in strata levels.
The shrinking of time would manifest itself in the imperical evenidence.
But you have to look for it.
Dopler star spectral shifts could also show this in 10,000 years.
While EVERYTHING would be slowing, it wouldn't be on a equal basis. Hence some star dopler shifts would change more than others.
This would be a relativistic evidentiary fact that the UNIVERSE is slowing.
It would take a long time to measure.
And we don't know, specifically, the logarithm effect on time that speed has.
We do know it's a few milliseconds when two atomic clocks are used as a reference and once is sped up.
But here we are talking going from BILLIONS of years per DAY of CREATION to HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS.
That's a radical shift.
It is easily theoretically possible.
The matter that formed the Earth and Sun could easily have been travelling at 100,000 miles per second 10 billion years ago and slowed to 500,000 miles per hour today.
That is a radical decline and IF you decide to look for it you will see it in about 50,000 to 100,000 years.
But you have to be looking and you have to survive that time frame.
2007-10-07 17:22:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The times referred to in the creation account of Genesis are allegorical at best - the reason to argue is that some people think they are more accurate than that. The inaccuracies of Genesis' time line cannot be explained by gravitation or any acceleration we can infer from the current state of the universe. It's simply not a question of relativity.
2007-10-07 17:14:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's ridiculous. We can be pretty darn sure that everyone in the history of mankind has been moving at a negligible fraction of the speed of light, producing very consistant time compression throughout human history.
2007-10-07 17:14:00 · answer #4 · answered by marbledog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even under relativity the principle of cause and effect are not violated.
2007-10-07 17:11:52 · answer #5 · answered by Northstar 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time is an illusion created for humans experiencing the reality program.
2007-10-07 18:06:32 · answer #6 · answered by Sal D 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Time is a measure of change: It is not a property
2007-10-07 17:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa!!!!!!! time to step away from the coffee and late night chat rooms with lofty language....
2007-10-07 17:11:29 · answer #8 · answered by theladygeorge 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lol, nice cop out.
Do you think that time passed faster back then because god is god and god can do anything, I mean after all he's god!
2007-10-07 17:12:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋