The Oldest Event Ever Witnessed.....

[spiritman]

This assumes of course that the speed of light is constant at 300 meters a second. or 186,000m/s

what are your thoughts? (don't mean to hijack this thread! )

No thoughts really, I've been on the Evolution vs creation threads too long. But if you must know, the writer claims that it has taken billions of years for the light to get here.

However, it has been proven that light can be sped up or slowed down, therefore the author stand a good chance of being incorrect.

[spiritman]

There is one experiment where the scientists actually sped light up to 300 X's it's normal speed. they used a gas to do this, so who's to say that the light traveling from this thing couldn't have traveled through a similar gas.

[spiritman]

sorry I don't mean to examine everything and be critical I'm going to let my hair lose and just rexlax Oh wait what hair?

[ellarose]

This assumes of course that the speed of light is constant at 300 meters a second. or 186,000m/s

what are your thoughts? (don't mean to hijack this thread! )

No thoughts really, I've been on the Evolution vs creation threads too long. But if you must know, the writer claims that it has taken billions of years for the light to get here.

However, it has been proven that light can be sped up or slowed down, therefore the author stand a good chance of being incorrect.

I've seen you on those threads, which is why i asked. Thanks for your input! I thought i had heard something simular before but wasn't sure if it was just my imagination!

You can borrow some of my hair

[Blien]

Been 29 for 27 years and don't look a day older!

BTW, how is it that man can tell that it this is 13.7 billion years? Didi they take a tape measure and measure the distance, then divide it by how fast they believe light travels???

That is EXACTLY what I was going to say. Not to burst anyone's bubble.. but who is to say that zooming in to a distant star with a camera is a trip back in time?

It could very well be October 29, 2009 over there too. It's only the distance between our planet and that star that adds time if we were to travel it. To say that we are looking back in time means that we accept the theory of the Big Bang... don't you think?

Yes...I believe the 'Big Bang' was the instant God spoke the universe in being.

"wise guy eh?" (in curly's voice)

Well do you suppose that he is still speaking the universe into existence or that it was a sort of domino effect and keeps getting larger and larger and larger....? Have scientist really any evidence of the end of the universe to say that it's still growing?

[MorningGlory]

There is one experiment where the scientists actually sped light up to 300 X's it's normal speed. they used a gas to do this, so who's to say that the light traveling from this thing couldn't have traveled through a similar gas.

I did read where a Canadian scientist did a lot of research on that and has challenged Einstein's Theory of Relativity. If it's proven that light can speed up and slow down it will change a LOT of things that are currently held to be true. From the New Scientist site:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092...tly.html?page=1

[nebula]

The photons have to travel the distance before they reach our optics/optic receptors/telescopes.

Okay...what are photons?

Simply put, what light is made of.

[spiritman]

This assumes of course that the speed of light is constant at 300 meters a second. or 186,000m/s

what are your thoughts? (don't mean to hijack this thread! )

No thoughts really, I've been on the Evolution vs creation threads too long. But if you must know, the writer claims that it has taken billions of years for the light to get here.

However, it has been proven that light can be sped up or slowed down, therefore the author stand a good chance of being incorrect.

I've seen you on those threads, which is why i asked. Thanks for your input! I thought i had heard something simular before but wasn't sure if it was just my imagination!

You can borrow some of my hair

Thanks

[spiritman]

There is one experiment where the scientists actually sped light up to 300 X's it's normal speed. they used a gas to do this, so who's to say that the light traveling from this thing couldn't have traveled through a similar gas.

I did read where a Canadian scientist did a lot of research on that and has challenged Einstein's Theory of Relativity. If it's proven that light can speed up and slow down it will change a LOT of things that are currently held to be true. From the New Scientist site:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6092...tly.html?page=1

What do mean if; are these articles that I have here incorrect? Please let me know? click here

click here

click here it seems to me that in some of these articles experiments have already taken place and this is proven as fact or have I missed something?

[Fez]

I am old enough to have been there at the time. So I am the definitive authority. It was awesome!