tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post8845920443706551917..comments2024-03-17T10:13:20.234-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: Science Friday: Einstein's Special Relativity 1Ken Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-10630774300325686422013-06-29T02:08:33.574-04:002013-06-29T02:08:33.574-04:00Gosh, you know what? To be totally honest, those ...Gosh, you know what? To be totally honest, those were my feel-out-this-arena questions.<br />Ok. So, say light travels at ten miles per hour, and is leaving an explosion towards me that occurred four hours away from me if I travelled there at the speed that light travels. That means I will see the initial explosion about four hours after it actually occurred. Correct? <br />Light actually travels at about 669,000,000 miles per hour. And say there were explosions in the heavens that occurred three years away in travel time, travelling at the speed of light. That means three years after the initial explosion, I would just start seeing that explosion from Earth. I wonder if that is why no one will know when the end will come (because of that God-built delay factor in the slowness of the speed of light). "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and the tossing of the sea. People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (Luke 21:25-18). Thoughts? Thanks. SusanAnonymoushttp://thecommonlanguage.com/wordpress2/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-82770726247548311302013-06-28T19:47:03.616-04:002013-06-28T19:47:03.616-04:00Light doesn't go through everything, but it se...Light doesn't go through everything, but it seems to move at the same speed no matter where it's moving. I'm not sure whether it moves entirely in a straight line because, from one point of view it travels as photon particles. Others may speak more informed...Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-70461857359066921832013-06-28T18:42:02.151-04:002013-06-28T18:42:02.151-04:00Thanks for not letting my brain rot during these t...Thanks for not letting my brain rot during these two weeks off from school! Light is cool stuff -it's God stuff. Light moves at a constant speed in a vacuum, but does it change its speed moving through stuff? What stuff was there on day one of God's creation? And how much of a third dimension did that stuff have? Was it different than the light from the lit-up things God made on day four? The light from day four had the atmosphere to contend with, yet there is no line of demarcation between the heavens of outer space and the sky with our atmosphere in it. Also, if light in effected by stuff, then how can it travel in a straight line? For instance, if light is being beamed out to earth from a distant star 100 light years away. The light I'm seeing today was emitted from that star some exceedingly long time ago. What is holding that light in a presumably straight line towards me from where it left off? And where is that star now? Is that why nobody will know when the end will come? SusanAnonymoushttp://thecommonlanguage.com/wordpress2/noreply@blogger.com