A YEC question about stars and time

A YEC question about stars and time

Recently I cam across a question posted by a YEC regarding stars and older events in our universe. Here it is followed by my brief answer.

Now I am no astrophysicist, but I do know that science pretty well agrees on the big bang. Therefore the oldest event in the universe is everything originating at the same point.
It is said when we look deeper into space we see older events. Yet, how does that account for the older events happening closer together since the universe is in fact expanding with time? And the older you get the more compressed everything becomes. Is this not true for time as well?

Now I am no astrophysicist either but from what I know,  space time like a 3 dimensional grid (actually in theory it is 4 dimensional). FYI, the expansion is not at a consistent rate throughout history. Light as you know, the further it goes from the source, the more it scatters. But also remember that light is both wave and a particle. And that there is a lot of matter in the universe which affects light because of gravity.

Now, the expansion of the universe is happening, we know that. But why is it happening and what it really means to expand?

Consider a stick of gum and put four small objects on it, two objects on either ends, call them group L1 and group L2, mark their position and then stretch the gum. You will see that the distance between group L1 and L2 on either sides of the gum increased from each other but their location on the gum itself hasn’t changed at all, it is the same. The whole gum has expanded.

The same way, the universe expanded, and the expansion which is happening now is because of inertia of the Bigbang. But there is matter in the universe and there is gravity present so the bodies which get closer together, bond with gravity and thus they remain at the same distance at which they bonded. It is simply that their space, like in the gum example, is being stretched but because of their gravitation bond they are not expanding away from each other.

Meaning L1 and L2 moved apart but the two bodies in L2 remained bonded to each other while expanding away from L1 altogether.

Bodies which gravitate towards each other are released from the inertia effect of the big bang therefore they stay with each other because of the gravity in between them. This is the precise reason why the Andromeda galaxy is not moving away but in fact moving towards the milky way galaxy, because of the gravitational force present.

I have oversimplified it but that is the basic thing.

Europe’s Oldest Cave Art

Europe’s Oldest Cave Art

El Castillo cave wall. (Credit: Pedro Saura)

ScienceDaily (June 14, 2012) — Paleolithic paintings in El Castillo cave in Northern Spain date back at least 40,800 years — making them Europe’s oldest known cave art, according to new research published June 14 in Science.

The research team was led by the University of Bristol and included Dr Paul Pettitt from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Archaeology, a renowned expert in cave art. Their work found that the practice of cave art in Europe began up to 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, indicating the paintings were created either by the first anatomically modern humans in Europe or, perhaps, by Neanderthals.



There is no god!…really?

There is no god!…really?

The concept that there is no god is as old as the belief in god itself. The world’s dominant number of sects and races still have a religion, even if it is a brand to most. Atheists tend to believe that they got it right and hence almost 86% (as the rest are around 2-3% atheists and 12 percent non-religious) of the world is either mentally ill or plain delusional. Though numbers are not the pillar of proof still they give a striking contrast of the atheist position.

The average atheist doesn’t realize that what he/she basically tries to prove can not be called a statement if there is no equal argument. I do not think God is necessary, no, but he is present.

The act of reproduction is the biggest proof to me that there is a God, a creator. Something triggers a complex chain of events inside a womb and life breaks out. No matter what the Atheist say about it, I think more conviction is called for.