Gravitation and Time Part 4

Last year, Dr. Erik Verlinde shocked th3C 273 jet with
      changing spectrume physics community by claiming that gravity is emergent; it does not actually exist. Verlinde asserts that gravitational motions arise from entropy differences at the microscopic level. (An increase in disorder and randomness is an increase in entropy). One fact supports Verlinde. No one has ever detected time, mass, energy or gravity. They are defined with assumptions and are never found as isolated entities. Emergent properties have no actual existence but emerge from the interplay of subatomic phenomena that are mysterious and unknowable. If the fundamentals of physics are non fundamental, emerging from quantum quagmires, what causes orderly, clock-like orbits? Are clocks really linear?


The only way to test the linearity of clocks is to compare modern clocks and orbits with distant, former ones. NASA monitored the radio frequencies from the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft as they exited the solar system in opposite directions. Dr. John Anderson, from JPL, noticed that as the Pioneer’s got farther from Earth, their radio signals (derived from on board clocks) clocked lower frequencies than expected. Anderson noticed similar distance related frequency shifts from the Ulysses and Galileo spacecraft. One possibility is that all clocks (including NASA’s hydrogen maser clocks) accelerated by 1.5 Hz during 7.5 years of Pioneer tracking. The decline in the observed frequencies with increasing distance was close to the Hubble constant, H0, times the speed of light (velocity of radio signals). Scientists claim that the vacuum of space is expanding at a rate expressed by H0. Allegedly, ancient atomic clocks are observed to clock lower frequencies because their spectra was stretched by the expansion of space. The clock signals from nearby spaceships slowing with increasing distance at approximately the same rate as the spectra from distant galaxies suggests that all clocks are accelerating. Yet the Pioneer anomaly does not seem to affect clock-like planet orbits.


Why are planet orbits clock-like? The only history that is visible as it happened is galactic history. Astronomers classify galaxies according to their shapes. We observe that many ancient galaxies were naked, without starry appendages. At closer ranges we observe bluish globs, like beads on a necklace, surrounding the redder cores. Evidently as the stars accelerated out from primordial cores, their atoms increased their spectral frequencies. At many closer ranges we observe that the globs continued to accelerate out, rotating out, spreading out, forming the dusty continuous arms of innumerable, local, growth spirals.


What causes the gravitational phenomena? The accelerating orbits cannot be explained by linear clocks and fixed gravity theories. What we observe suggests that the gravitational phenomena emerges (changes) as the properties of matter also change. Both Newton and Einstein imagined that matter does perpetually unchanging work on distant objects without any changes in the matter itself.


An elephant, today, seems the largest land animal possible. Yet we find the bones of massive dinosaurs that should weigh a hundred tons if they were alive today. Could ancient dinosaurs run because ancient atoms produced a smaller gravitation effect than modern ones? Could the Egyptians build huge pyramids with limestone blocks that weighed less than they do today? A scientists might claim, we measure gravity and it does not change. It is impossible to measure anything except ratios, without relying totally on the assumption that the properties of matter are fixed. Why then did the Babylonians find that Jupiter’s rose before dawn in the east every 399 earth days, which we also observe? How could the Babylonians know that Jupiter cycled through the entire ecliptic in 4332 days - as we also do? All we can measure is ratios. We never actually measure any time. When everything changes together, relationally, the ratios stay about the same even as the orbits (years) and rotations (days) both continue to accelerate.


A scientists might insist that we measure linear seconds with great precision. No! Scientists invented definitions, measuring units and clock-based mathematics with their historical first principle that the essence of substance is changeless. If the properties of matter are emerging and the gravitational effects result from changing matter, then clocks and orbits would both change together. Mathematically the orbits would seem clock-like - yet optically the parallax to the sun would continue to decrease. Since the early Greeks, astronomers have continued to record a decreasing optical parallax to the Sun. Even in the 21st century the optical distance to the sun during the 2004 Venus transit and the 2003 Mars opposition - both showed a solar system considerably bigger than the clock based radar values from forty years ago. Optically our solar system keeps on expanding. Optically, we observe how countless galaxies grew from the insides outward in violation of perpetual motion theories of gravity. Evidently the gravitational phenomena continues to change, emerging, as atoms continue to change relationally.


Biblical cosmic history is confirmed in the simple evidence that matter keeps on changing its properties as the stars continued to come out from the cores of countless galaxies.

The picture is a composite of quasar 3C 273 from NASA’s Hubble, Chandra X-ray and Spitzer infrared telescopes. X-rays are shown in blue and infrared with red. The quasar is the bright glob at the top left that shines at 86 % of the frequencies of modern atoms. Notice that the pulsed jet does not bend as it emerges, as though the core had minimum gravitational effects on the jet. The atoms in the jet also keep changing spectral colors as they emerge.


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