The Oldest Event Ever Witnessed.....

[ellarose]

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

Good thing we have you here Fez

[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

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

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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?

It appears that this is still controversial....it has not been proven or universally accepted as yet. It makes sense though. From the article.......

"The speed of light, one of the most sacrosanct of the universal physical constants, may have been lower as recently as two billion years ago - and not in some far corner of the universe, but right here on Earth.

The controversial finding is turning up the heat on an already simmering debate, especially since it is based on re-analysis of old data that has long been used to argue for exactly the opposite: the constancy of the speed of light and other constants.

A varying speed of light contradicts Einstein's theory of relativity, and would undermine much of traditional physics. But some physicists believe it would elegantly explain puzzling cosmological phenomena such as the nearly uniform temperature of the universe. It might also support string theories that predict extra spatial dimensions."

[MorningGlory]

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.

[MorningGlory]

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

[MorningGlory]

Interestingly enough, this event has given us some interesting evidence.

"The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was half its present age. After a journey of 7.3 billion light-years, they all arrived within nine-tenths of a second of one another in a detector on NASA

[MrClark]

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???

Okay, I had to look up the answer....only fair since I posted this. But it sounds pretty simple....see here:

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kid.../star_dist.html

Excellent post, though I thought I might add just a bit. The parallax method for measuring distance is only useful up to a certain distance, the UCAR article says hundreds of light years, but depending on the specific method this can be increased or decreased. The distance to the most remote objects is measured by determining their redshift. Simply put, farther objects are moving faster away, and so light from them is doppler shifted towards red, this is measured with a spectrograph, and then the Hubble constant is used to measure distance. Hope this helps, have a good one!

[Fez]

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.

Well here we have a car made in China called the Photon. Don't buy one...... It falls apart at the speed of light

[MorningGlory]

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.

Well here we have a car made in China called the Photon. Don't buy one...... It falls apart at the speed of light

[Guest]

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

Amen!

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BTW, how is it that man can tell that 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???

If This, Than That

And Assuming Thus And So And Such, It Must Be....

But God

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1:3

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Grasshopper

How Fast Is Stretch

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 40:21-23

And How Foul Is Sin

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalms 38:4-5

And How Costly Is Redemption

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1 Peter 1:18-19

And Who Can Plumb The Depth Of God's Love

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39

Or The Horrors Of Hell

And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Mark 9:47-48

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The Key

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

Deuteronomy 32:39-40

To Life

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Revelation 4:11

The Universe And Everything

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

Revelation 5:11-12

Is Jesus Christ And Him Crucified

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

Be Blessed Beloved

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 5:3-11