How do you explain the light from stars that exploded billions of years ago that we can see now? Is that an optical illusion?
Did the light from the stars that blew up billions of years ago that we can see exploding now actually travel faster to get here in time for us to see them?
2007-10-09 09:20:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Does light not take time to travel?
2007-10-09 09:23:39 · update #1
C. L. Richardson: This isn't pre-aged, this is time it takes for the light from stars god created to travel the vastness of space to reach here. Even if he formed the universe instantaneously it would have taken the light time to travel. Did God tune the distance the light traveled from all stars based on their distance from earth? Maybe he just has the finite amount of energy in the star traveling out to infinity? Kind of a paradox.
2007-10-09 09:25:59 · update #2
One the First Day, God made the light and separated the light from the darkness (day and night). Genesis 1:3-5
On the Fourth Day, God made the Sun, Moon and Stars and set them in their places in the sky. Genesis 1:14-18
So I'd say "Yes, God placed the photons from distant stars in their paths BEFORE He put the stars there." Which is what He said He did - so science does NOT contradict scripture on this.
2007-10-09 09:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is complex, I'll try.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. In short, the moon you see in the sky is how the moon looked 1.8 seconds ago as light takes that long to reach Earth. The moon is the closest body to Earth.
In 1 minute, light travels 11 million, one hundred sixty thousand miles. Times that by 60 gives you the distance per hour and times 24 gives you the distance by day and times 365 gives you the distance by year; times that by 100 million and the miles to that star is a long long way.
If you were to look at a distant star that was, say, 100 million light years away, what your seeing is that star as it appeared 100 million years ago. The "100 million light years" means, the star is the distance light travels in 100 million years.
It's a long way off...
That very star could be gone right now, could have exploded 99 million years ago and we will not see the "super Nova" (explosion) on Earth for 1 million more years.
I know I know, and you thought walking to school was a long way?
2007-10-09 09:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by Adonai 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what they have told me. It also explains the rather weird fact that light was created before the the stars that make the light.
I really don't think they are going to let a minor detail like super nova get in their way after that one.
2007-10-09 09:26:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You should know that those heavenly objects are suspended in the firmament, a mere few hundred miles above the earth.
It's all an opthickal illusion. And plenty of it, as far as I understand.
2007-10-09 09:24:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The theory I've heard is known as "c decay." Basically, it says that light once moved faster and has slowed down.
I know it makes no sense.
2007-10-09 09:23:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
i explain it quite easily:
there are stars out there in deep space.
they are very, very old.
i believe the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, in a vacuum; thus, it takes time to travel
2007-10-09 09:24:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
So you believe man words over Gods. Man has been wrong before.
GOD BLESS
2007-10-09 09:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by TCC Revolution 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
satan put them there, right after he planted those dinosaur bones.
2007-10-09 09:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If Adam was created pre-aged (fully adult) then I don't see any reason why the stars couldn't be too. They were made to be viewed and appreciated.
2007-10-09 09:23:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋