Pioneer Anomaly and Clocks

Stand on the side of a level road and listen as a large truck approaches, passes, and then recedes into the distance.  The sound changes from a high pitch as it approaches to a lower pitch as it moves away. Doppler is the local change in the frequency of a signal due to relative motion. The frequency of the sound can also change due to a change in the frequency of the source - as when the truck changes gears. Doppler shifts can affect sounds, light and radio signals.

Doppler navigation involves beating the received carrier signal against a reference signal and counting the number of difference-cycles over some short interval. The cycle count is then converted into the earthward component of the relative velocity of the spacecraft / earth-antenna system. In 1998, John D. Anderson from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported on the unexpected Doppler shifting of the radio signals of the two Pioneer craft as they exited the solar system in opposite directions. The Pioneers were particular suited to this type of study because the entire spaceship is a gyro that is only periodically precessed by firing thruster jets. Anderson suggested that the Doppler shift shows the spacecraft were slowing more than predicted by the laws of physics. He calculated that in addition to the normal slowing from 'gravity' and other possible effects, the birds were mysteriously slowing at 8.74 ± 1.33 x 10^-10 meters / seconds ² toward the Sun.

Biblical physics can suggest answers that cannot be countenanced scientifically. This is because it is based on a different principle than Western science. The basic principle in biblical physics is that the creation is in bondage to change - Greek phthora. Biblical physics is supported by simple, non mathematical evidence. We can compare the properties of ancient matter with local matter because we can see the past in the distant sky. The farther the galaxy (the more we see it as it was eons ago) the more its light shines at minuscule ratios of the light frequencies of similar (albeit modern) atoms. No distant galaxy shines with the light of perpetual motion atoms. Scientists cannot countenance the notion that matter is always changing its properties because their entire mathematical structure was built on a single assumption invented by a pagan Greek. Aristotle insisted (1) that we must assume that the properties of matter are fixed (2) and build all knowledge on changelessness, even though none is observed. Over the last seven centuries, Western scientists contrived their definitions of matter and time, their measuring units and their mathematics on Aristotle's assumption that the properties of matter are not emerging. The scientific system is consistent locally because every definition and measurement is based on the same assumption - that the properties of matter are not changing relationally. However, the scientific universe is 99% invisible, crammed full of invisible matter and never-detected vacuous processes. All the magical things are woven out of invisible cloth to counteract the simple, visible evidence that matter is always changing its properties throughout the visible history of the universe.

Let's apply the principle of Biblical physics to the Pioneer Anomaly. The only way we can compare the rate of past seconds with modern seconds is to compare distant clocks with modern, local clocks. Since countless atoms in countless galaxies at many ranges always blue shift their clock rates throughout cosmic history, why shouldn't the atoms in the Pioneer crystals and the Deep Space Network also blue shift? The Pioneer radio signals took several hours to cross space and arrive at Earth. The Doppler comparison is a sum of the velocity related changes plus the natural and inherent changes in all atoms as they age. The distant Pioneer clocks are doing what all clocks continually and visibly do, they are speeding up. However, we see them as slower (due to the travel delay). We are actually comparing the varying rate of past clocks with the varying rate of modern (faster) ones.

How can you be sure the Pioneer anomaly is not due to the expanding vacuum of space-time or some other mathematical (but invisible) explanation? We see a biblical cosmic history. We observe at many ranges how the galaxies grew. Ancient galaxies were tiny and naked. We follow how little globs of stars accelerated outward as billions of galaxies, at many ranges, grew into huge growth spirals. Both the atomic clocks and the orbital (inertial) clocks change concurrently as countless galaxies grew. This is visible evidence against the dogma of all scientists, that the properties of matter are not emerging. We can see that the space matter takes up, its atomic frequencies and its inertial properties all change together (relationally) as galaxies violated every scientific law by growing into huge growth spirals.

Biblical physics not a theory. It is simply the statements in the Bible that we confirm with sight, not mathematical symbols. Every atom in the whole universe is observed to change throughout cosmic history and the Pioneers are just a local confirmation of this natural, visible, universal effect. Think about it.

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