New creation cosmology
Refined time dilation model appears in Journal of Creation without fanfare
by Journal of Creation editorial staff
Figure 1. By now, the waters above the heavens (Psalm 148:4) are
probably a thin veil of ice particles, or scattered planet-sized spheres of water
covered with thick crusts of ice.
Published: 25 June 2009(GMT+10)
Unless you have attended one of Russ Humphreys’ seminars in the last few months,
or else read the Journal of Creation cover to cover, you probably missed
the birth of a new creation cosmology in the
December 2008 issue. Quietly tucked into the back pages of an article by
Dr. Humphreys on general relativity is a new answer to the light-transit-time problem—to
explain how light traveled from the distant cosmos and reached Earth, all during
one ordinary-length day on Earth, the fourth day of creation. Humphreys used an
equation he derived in the August 2007 issue,
a new solution to Einstein’s gravity equations. The new solution accounts
for the effect of the “waters that are above the heavens” mentioned
in Psalm 148:4 (Figure 1), and the effect of God’s creating
the material of the stars during the fourth day (Isaiah 40:26).
When the sphere reaches zero radius and disappears, Earth emerges, and immediately
the light that has been following the sphere will reach Earth, even light that started
billions of light-years away.
Accordingly, the model says that early on the fourth day, God’s creation of
Sun and planets nearby plunges Earth into a zone of timelessness. In the
zone all physical processes, including clocks, come to a complete stop. The spherical
zone of timelessness expands out from the earth at the speed of light, engulfing
the newly-created stars and galaxies. After reaching the most distant galaxies,
the timeless zone reverses itself and begins shrinking back toward the earth at
the speed of light. As it does so, it uncovers the new galaxies, which immediately
begin emitting light again. Some of that light goes toward the center where the
earth is, right behind the shrinking sphere of timelessness. Dr Humphreys: “When
the sphere reaches zero radius and disappears, Earth emerges, and immediately the
light that has been following the sphere will reach Earth, even light that started
billions of light-years away. On the fourth day, “An observer on the night
side of the earth would see a black sky one instant, and a sky filled with stars
the next instant.”
An observer on the night side of the earth would see a black sky one instant, and a sky filled with stars the next instant.
This new cosmology springs from the same root as his 1994 cosmology in
Starlight and Time, namely a cosmos with a center of mass, the
earth near it (on a cosmological scale of distances), and expansion of space. (Dr
John Hartnett has two
creation cosmologies that have these features as well.) However, Dr Humphreys
likes his new model better than his old one, saying it is clearer and simpler. Dr
Hartnett agrees with that, saying that it solves the problem of time dilation for
stars that are relatively near. We’ve decided to make Humphreys’ 2008
Journal of Creation article available earlier than normal,
here on the CMI website. He hopes to submit an article to the website soon
explaining the new cosmology in simple terms—no equations or graphs, but possibly
some animated graphics. Warning: it will be understandable, but mind-stretching!
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