| Our concept of the world develops from what we | | | | 800 kph, thus you and fellow passengers have |
| see and the straightforwardness of conceptual | | | | experienced time "speeding up" - you haven't "aged" |
| conformity with such observations. Thus we, as | | | | as much as they have - by perhaps one forty-billionth |
| children, (and early humans), believed the Earth was | | | | of a second! |
| flat, an obvious ground-level conclusion, the sun rising | | | | - An astronaut goes to the moon, where gravity is |
| in the east and setting in the west. However, with | | | | about one-fourth that of Earth; the moon traveler will |
| acquired knowledge comes acceptance of the | | | | therefore experience a "time-passage-slowing" and |
| non-obvious as fact, thus almost everyone in today's | | | | "aging" compared to Earthlings of a similar infinitesimal |
| world knows that our Earth is an oblate spheroid, | | | | and unnoticable amount; |
| rotates about its axis, and revolves about the sun. | | | | - The above represent trivial variances from our |
| Science, during the past decade, has established the | | | | Earth-based gravity and velocity, however - what |
| calculated time since the Big Bang (when our Universe | | | | calculates out when these parameters are not |
| began), as 13.7 billion years, Earth-time. But science | | | | miniscule but gargantuan - is a shocking difference in |
| has also calculated that Earth formed about four | | | | relative passages of "time"! |
| billion years ago - thus for the first ten billion years, | | | | - Imagine a ray of sunlight wherein a mote of dust is |
| our Earth was but part of a swirling mass of matter | | | | wafted about by slight room air currents. On Earth, |
| which eventually became all the galaxies; then our | | | | the weight of such a particle is so small as to be |
| galaxy; then our solar system; finally Earth. Thus, | | | | practically immeasurable. However, caught in the |
| there was no "Earth" for the first ten billion or so | | | | gravity field of a "Black Hole" (a singularity, but a |
| "Earth-time" years. So how old is the Universe | | | | frightening reality in the Cosmos), so powerful that |
| -scientifically? | | | | rays of light cannot escape, that same dust particle |
| Professor Albert Einstein, a true iconoclastic creative | | | | might weigh hundreds of thousands of tons - and the |
| genius, theorized that "Time" is not a constant in our | | | | gravity field wherein future-Earth found itself at the |
| Universe (a contrary conceptual feeling, similar to | | | | Big Bang was much more powerful than that of a |
| Earth not being as observed - "flat"), instead he | | | | Black Hole! |
| concluded that "Time" is "relative" between various | | | | Thus (almost inconceivably), in the gravity-field and |
| locations, dependent upon differences in two | | | | velocity of the Big Bang, Cosmologists calculate that |
| parameters: the local gravity field and travel velocity. | | | | the first Cosmic day (24 hours, similar to a future |
| Thus, here on Earth, average man weighs about 170 | | | | Earth day) was about seven billion future-Earth years; |
| lbs. and we are traveling about 220 miles per second | | | | and day two - in the expanding Universe - was about |
| (Earth's rotation; circling of our Sun; movement of | | | | half that; and so on. Thus, the entire 13.7 billion years |
| our Solar System in our galaxy; etc.). | | | | of Earth time since the Big Bang - calculates to be |
| Cosmic time can be calculated by Cosmologists, | | | | approximately only six days of Cosmic time! |
| relative to that "spot" in the swirling mass which | | | | Comparisons of Cosmic time to the biblical six days |
| eventually became Earth, and relative to the first ten | | | | of Creation, and the happenings in the Cosmos and |
| billion years (Earth-time). However, to develop a | | | | on Earth (per Astronomical and Earth sciences), show |
| "mind-set" to permit comprehension of Einsteinian | | | | remarkable correlations to the Genesis descriptions: |
| Relativity (as with an Earth that is spherical, rotating | | | | formation of galaxies, solar system, Earth, water, |
| and sun-circling, versus being table-top flat), some | | | | vegetation, aquatic and flying creatures, mammals |
| mental-concept "stepping-stones" should be helpful: | | | | and humankind (different words but not a single |
| - You take a six hour cross-country airplane flight; | | | | non-conformity or contradiction)! |
| your speed versus landlubbers is faster by perhaps | | | | |