| A layman's probings into the arcanities of Cosmology. | | | | degree-K space"; |
| Since most intellectual leaders of society believe | | | | " .. from that moment of quark confinement, radiation |
| Darwin-Evolutionism to be proven science, a serious | | | | has been stretched a million-million-fold .. that |
| question arises - how long was that evolutionary | | | | stretching has slowed the frequency of the cosmic |
| period during the early epoch of our universe | | | | clock - expanding the "perceived time" by a [factor |
| following the Big Bang - to those self-same evolving | | | | of a] million-million." (Note: emphasis added.) |
| organisms struggling to survive on newly-formed | | | | An Internet reference asks and answers: How big |
| Earth? The elapsed time since the Big bang of 13.7 | | | | are time dilation effects? It only starts to become |
| billion years ago, and the formation of Earth a bit | | | | large at speeds close to the speed of light: at 0.99c it |
| over four billion years ago, are well-established by | | | | is 7; at 0.9997c it is 40; at 0.999 999 999 95c it is |
| science, seeming to provide adequately for an | | | | 200,000 - "time" being slowed down by those |
| evolutionary time-frame - while to challengers of | | | | factors. If a proton particle (mass 1 GeV) struck |
| Darwinism, even billions of years would be insufficient | | | | Earth's upper atmosphere, the speed would be 0.999 |
| for the Evolutionary process theory ("random error | | | | 999 999 999 999 999 999 995 c, and the |
| mutation", "natural selection" and "survival of the | | | | time-dilation effect would be 10 to the 11th power |
| fittest") to have achieved the complexities of life. | | | | -the 13.7 billion year age of the Universe would be |
| However, scientists who do challenge Darwin theory, | | | | shortened to only about a month. (Notes: 1) In |
| also challenge the billions of years as not being the | | | | addition to the effect of velocity, there is also |
| scientifically correct answer to the question - due to | | | | gravitation, immense at the beginnings of the |
| time dilation. | | | | Universe. 2) "about a month" - compares to the |
| (Note: research in today's world of computer | | | | gravity and velocity parameters after the Big Bang, |
| technology, even of esoteric subjects, is not subject | | | | when cosmologists calculate the equivalency of 13.7 |
| to previous time-consuming constraints: qualifications | | | | billion years to be only about six days.) |
| for taking Post-Doc classes or poring over arcane | | | | Other Internet gems: |
| research papers in university libraries - today one | | | | - "'space' is expanding, not 'matter' - the galaxies |
| simply "Googles or Yahoos" on a home PC - all | | | | retain their size, the positions of the galaxies shift"; |
| knowledge being, quite literally, at one's fingertips. | | | | - a moving clock ticks more slowly than a stationary |
| The draw-back, of course, is the lack of explanatory | | | | one; |
| insights by an at-hand expert - if needed for full | | | | - time-dilation effects also impact upon daily living - |
| comprehension. Still, while probably missing the | | | | global positioning satellites. GPS was developed by the |
| subtleties for total understanding, it is hoped that the | | | | US Department of Defense, a satellite-based |
| essentials can be readily grasped from Internet | | | | navigation system for the military; later extended to |
| sources - they are truly enlightening, most basics | | | | civilian navigation; more recently to the public, |
| clearly explained.) | | | | automobiles and hand-held devices; it became fully |
| Einstein's "time-dilation" law. To begin, it seems | | | | operational in 1993. |
| obvious that "passage-of-time" - as a "constant" | | | | The GPS system is based on the principle of the |
| everywhere - would be a natural assumption for | | | | constancy of the speed of light, and accounts for |
| almost everyone - solidified in Star-Trek-type films. | | | | time dilation of moving clocks in the satellites as well |
| (Why would anyone think otherwise - as much or | | | | as clocks on Earth. The system consists of 24 |
| even more so than a flat Earth being the natural | | | | satellites in high orbits, circling Earth at an altitude of |
| assumption to an unschooled farmer - knowing only | | | | about 12,000 miles with speeds of about 8,400 mi |
| of plains, valleys and hill farm-lands - unable to even | | | | hour. (Contrary to popular belief, GPS satellites are |
| comprehend the concept of a spherical Earth; why | | | | not in geosynchronous or geostationary orbits). At |
| oceans and lakes on the "underside" wouldn't drain | | | | least four satellites are always visible from any point |
| off)? However, the ramifications of scientific | | | | on Earth; atomic clocks aboard are accurate to a |
| discoveries (such as the universal constant - speed of | | | | billionth of a second. The precision is phenomenal: |
| light) has led to remarkable and non-obvious truisms - | | | | even a simple hand-held receiver, weighing only a few |
| such as "time relativity" and "time dilation". | | | | ounces, can determine one's position on the surface |
| For average people on Earth today, it would seem | | | | of the Earth to within 5 to 10 meters - in seconds. |
| strange to consider anything other than one's normal | | | | Clocks on board GPS satellites require periodic |
| experience with "time-passage" when thinking of the | | | | adjustment to synchronize with clocks on Earth, the |
| world's beginnings (we know what we know: | | | | difference between satellite and ground-based clocks |
| seconds - one, two, three - minutes, hours, days, | | | | being 38 micro-seconds per day (Einstein's General |
| months, years.) And yet, in the environment of the | | | | Relativity = 45; Special Relativity = - 7; total = 38 |
| Big Bang, with the incomprehensible magnitudes of | | | | micro-seconds/day). |
| gravity and velocity, the reality is vastly different | | | | Now, back to the original question: What was the |
| than one's experience on 21st century Earth. | | | | duration of the "evolution period" as experienced on |
| Cosmologists G. L. Schroeder ("Genesis and the Big | | | | Earth? |
| Bang", "The Science of God") and N. Aviezer ("In the | | | | Looking backwards in time from today's |
| Beginning") explain the phenomena of "time relativity" | | | | "elapsed-time standard", the Cambrian Era with its |
| - that "time", as perceived and experienced - is | | | | "explosion of all life forms extant today" |
| different to observers in different locations, changing | | | | (commentary from Earth sciences) was 530 million |
| with differing individual gravity and velocity | | | | years ago - but the happening itself, to everything on |
| parameters. Comparing today's world to the | | | | Earth (being "evolved" per Evolution theory) - was |
| aftermath of the Big Bang, the difference | | | | only on a single day, Day 5, Cosmic time clock |
| approaches "beyond belief". | | | | calendar (Chart page 89, "Brainwashed and Miracles"). |
| "A million-million factor, as an average, is the | | | | Thus, the time-duration-availability for the |
| difference between our local perception of Earth time | | | | Darwinian-evolution-theory (all animals plus mankind |
| and cosmic time; it derives from the approximate | | | | supposedly evolving by mutation and natural |
| million-million-fold stretching of light waves as the | | | | selection) probably could not have exceeded 24 |
| universe expanded"; | | | | hours here on Earth - the hard, scientific fact of time |
| "From Big Bang, we know the temperature and .. | | | | dilation should therefore eliminate the concept of |
| frequency of radiation energy in the universe at | | | | "eons of time" for Darwinian |
| "quark confinement" (at temperatures below this | | | | "mutation-selection-fittest". Yet, somehow, living |
| value, Energy is not changeable to Mass) .. [it is] not a | | | | organisms did come about on Earth anyway - so |
| value extrapolated or estimated from .. distant past | | | | how? (Will the theory of Intelligent Design be |
| or far out space .. [it is] measured . . temperature | | | | permitted to enter mainstream consideration? |
| approximately a million-million times hotter than the 3 | | | | |