If the farthest stars are in various directions from the earth are the same distance away, then is the earth “the center” of the universe? Some are claimed to now be 13.4 billion light years “away” and the universe is supposedly 13.9 billion years old. That means that these guys were about one half a billion light years away from the earth when they were formed. But it was not even here, then.
So what about the closer stars, like Andromeda? It is supposedly 9 billion years old, and is 2.5 billion light years away. See the problem? If the earth is 4.5 billion years old, then this star and galaxy must have passed us about 2.5 billion years ago.
Where was it formed? And what did it do for 6.5 billion years, before it began to recede from the earth? We are supposedly seeing light emitted 2.5 billion years ago, but it is is moving away from us. So we are seeing it where it was 2.5 billion years ago. If it has existed 9 billion years, where is the light given off for the 6.5 billion years before it became visible to us?
And every star that we examine is going “away” from us. But over 2.5 billion years ago, it must have been coming toward us. But according to Big Bang (BB) theory, all of the matter in the universe was created 13.9 billion years ago in the BB. It has been rushing outward since then. Supposedly the earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago, so for 9 or so billion years the “star stuff” (Carl Sagan) that would become earth hurtled through space, then coalesced into to this solar system. (The sun is also purported to also be 4.5 billion years old.)
But the Milky Way galaxy (MW) is 13.2 billion years old. (I did not check the ages of other stars in our galaxy. It is too messy now.) So the MW formed about 0.7 billion years after the BB, then raced away from the “epicenter” of the universe, where ever that is, until the sun and solar system formed inside this moving mass of star stuff about 4.5 billion years after Andromeda formed. Then 2 billion years later, Andromeda began to recede from earth. Confused yet?
Another question. Did some unknown star or stars form, then supernova into oblivion to produce more of the high atomic number atoms that form the earth, but evidently not the sun? Or were all of the “high number” atoms formed in the BB? Most theories do not account for that. They postulate a sequence of events to produce the higher elements. All of this while rushing through the cosmos. The degree of “messiness” is approaching the level of confusion as to “how all this happened.”
A philosopher named Ocham proposed a “razor” or test to determine how to distinguish between competing theories. The simplest and most straight forward is to be preferred until it is proven wrong or discredited. Seems BB is tottering on the brink of discreditation. (Is that a word? Red squiggly line says, “No.” But is applies. What does WordPerfect know?)
It is amusing to see the literally mindless numbers bandied about in articles concerning stars and black holes “eating” each other and other celestial phenomena. Most of these occurrences are not “observed” but merely inferred from a burst of X-rays or gamma rays. Often there was “nothing” there, that we could see, anyway, and then suddenly a literal “blast from the past” occurs and the radiation is detected and “explained” as if someone were actually on site, reporting on channel 2.
I should have taken astronomy instead of chemistry. Pity the poor chemist who has to actually do experiments and get results that correlate with his theories. (Except for P-chem, of course. They get to make up formulas and claim that the result is proved. Just joking, Barry. I know you work hard.)
But the astronomer observes something from the unthinkable past, guesses what it could be, and is lauded as a genius. And if they all “guess” the same way, it looks like a preponderance of evidence is accumulated.
(Disclaimer: These observations are made by a guy who stopped with differential equations and never took quantum mechanics. Who also struggled with atomic and nuclear physics. I understood the words when the prof explained that an electron could “tunnel” through a zero probability area to appear on the other side, but it sounded like hokum. (Technical science term) So the theoretical basis of astrophysics is outside the purview of my training and understanding.)
One does wonder, with all of eternity to spend with the Creator, if He will kindly bring all of us up to date on how He did all this. “He made the stars also.” (Genesis 1:16) My biggest question, is, “Will there be a test on this?”
This meandering pontification was all generated by the words of a song: This Love Is Mine. (First Verse below.) “We may plumb the depths of all the mighty oceans, we may tell the distance to the farthest star.” This got me thinking. (“Plumb” sounds better to me than “sound," but who am I to tell John W. Peterson and Alfred B. Smith how to write? “Sound” is okay.) The point is, that God’s love is more vast than even the universe. Think on these things.
Have a great day, and keep looking up tonight.
We may sound the depths of all the mighty oceans;
We may tell the distance to the farthest star.
But the mighty love of God cannot be measured.
Its dimensions are so high, so deep, so far!
CHORUS
This love is mine, I cannot comprehend it!
This love revealed through Christ, my Lord divine.
When on the tree He died for me.
God’s wondrous, glorious, mighty love,
This love is mine
http://www.namethathymn.com/hymn-lyrics-detective-forum/index.php?a=vtopic&t=142
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8lG9LUfIVI
(Not the greatest musical rendition, but the message is there. Jim the music critic.)
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