Gravity's Effect on the Age of the Earth

Einstein thought that gravity is the warping of space-time. Ripples in space-time supposedly travel at light speed. Newton's gravity is supposedly a force that acts across empty space and moves at infinite speed. Since the universe is immeasurably vast and the speed of light is finite, we observe cosmic history as it happened long ago. The simplest way to test gravity theories is to optically compare galaxies at different ranges. Scientific cosmic stories start with laws, based on assumptions, which bias their observations. Scientists surround every galaxy with a halo of invisible matter so that their laws work at galactic scales. According to their stories, there is more invisible matter than the normal kind. Astronomers use an anti gravity force (dark energy) to force their laws on the larger universe. Supposedly there is even more dark energy than invisible matter. The scientific universe is 99% invisible. The invisible things were contrived to protect their first assumption - that the properties of matter are fixed, not emerging.

We should understand the universe with visible evidence, interpreted with simple biblical principles, instead of forcing the universe to fit a blind dogma. The Bible states that the whole creation is enslaved to change (phthora). God continually calls the stars to come out. He actively spreads out the heavens in unbroken continuity, like a tent to dwell in. According to Genesis, He continues to form the Sun, Moon and stars and place them in the raqiya - the spreading heavens.

We verify these statements with the galactic continuum. Deep views of the universe show galaxies at many ranges, early nebulae and later, closer galaxies. (1) We observe that the earliest galaxies shone at tiny fractions of the clock rates of later galaxies. (2) The earliest galaxies are also naked, without appendages of stars. At closer ranges, we observe distinct globs, like beads on a necklace, surrounding many early galaxies. (3) The globular clumps shine with different colors than the core of the parent galaxy. (4) In spiral galaxies, we observe that the stars follow each other out in lanes, accelerating continually. At many ranges, we observe that billions of galaxies grew into huge growth spirals. Accelerating star streams go against all gravity theories.

3C175 ejectingWhat could cause galaxies to grow outward? The radio quasar 3C175 ejects a thin column of high speed matter. Astronomers claim that the source is an invisible black hole whose gravity is so strong that light cannot escape. Yet the ejecta does not even bend from the purported gravity until the jet begins to spread out in volume. Like 3C175, ancient galaxies ejected pulsed streams as if primordial matter had minimal gravity. We observe that as the ejecta increases in volume,
changes its spectral frequency and changes its inertial properties as galaxies spread out.

Did the changing properties of matter affect our planet? The Hebrew Bible states that the earth spreads out in unbroken continuity. Was the early Earth smaller than it is today? We can see that the continents only fit together on a tiny globe, without major oceans. A global expansion seam keeps on spewing out basaltic seafloor. The theory of subduction is contradicted by the layered, undisturbed sediments in the "subduction zones." Evidently the early earth was tiny. Were ancient objects also lighter? Tracks in petrified mud show that dinosaurs sometimes ran. Dinosaur bones are porous and bird-like. If giant dinosaurs were alive today, their weight would crush their porous bones. It would seem that things were much different in the dinosaur age.

What is gravity? Scientists have never detected gravitons, space-time or gravity waves. No theory of gravity even explains the source for the enormous amount of work that continually pushes our planet into an oblong orbit. Indeed, celestial mechanics assumes that gravity brings forth perpetual motion without detecting a source for all this power. Modern gravity theories rely on elementary assumptions, as do the efforts to verify the hypotheses. For example, both Newton and Einstein assumed that clocks measure time, as do attempts to test their theories. Scientists define time with untested assumptions. They do not detect any time or its properties.

When several visible phenomena correlate, they are certainly related, even if we cannot isolate a specific cause. The continuum of galactic history shows that matter's spectral frequencies, volumetric and inertial properties change as galaxies grew. Evidently what we call gravity is related to matter's orderly relational changes. Billions of galaxies, in the continuum of cosmic history, are violating the laws of gravity. However, they are not violating the biblical history of the universe, how God continually calls out the stars. Isaiah 44:24 "I, the LORD, am the maker of all things, Stretching out [actively in unbroken continuity] the heavens by Myself And spreading out [actively in unbroken continuity] the earth all alone." Indeed, we observe dense clumps of stars in countless primordial galaxies accelerating out. Since we observe that galaxies continually spread out in unbroken continuity, we confirm this statement.

How could 6,000 years of earth history fit the vast continuum of galactic history?

Consider the speed of gravity. Gravity is too weak to determine its speed in a laboratory. In 2002, Professors Kopeikin and Fomalont observed changes in the signals from the radio quasar J0842+1835 when it passed close by Jupiter. The radio changes arrived at the different antennae of the Very Long Baseline Array at different instances. Kopeikin claimed that he measured the speed of gravity at approximately light speed. If gravity propagates at finite speed, it would affect both the duration of years and days.

gravity accelerates the earth's rotation and orbitDid you ever roll a hoop when you were a child? By lightly tapping the trailing side of a rolling hoop with a stick, you can accelerate and steer it. Although gravity is the smallest "force," any propagation delay would affect Earth's trailing hemisphere more than the leading hemisphere. This would cause our orbit to spiral out and also speed up our spin rate. (See the accompanying graphic)."Gravity's" propagation delay would affect all the planets and moons, but the outer ones would spiral out more radically, since they would experience a greater angular offset. This could explain why the planet distances increase in a progressive manner (the Titus-Bode relation). It is not necessary to know gravity's cause or presume that it is constant. If "gravity" has a finite speed, days and years would both gradually shorten.

Does evidence support the acceleration of days and years? (1) Everyone experiences life speeding up as we age. (2) Jacob linked this speedup to previous generations. He said that his days and years were shorter and worse than the days and years of his fathers. (Genesis 47:9). (3) We find the skulls of the old ones with thick brows as though they lived for eons. The skull is the only part of our skeleton that keeps growing with age. If we lived for geological ages, our brows would grow thick like a Neanderthal's. (Neanderthal children did not have the thick brows). Job listed geological markers for the length of life when dinosaurs still roamed the world. He said their faces doubled, shanah paniym, before they died. (4) Judges 5:20 records that stars (plural kokabiym) fought from their courses as heavy rain fell. In Hebrew, kokab is Mercury and kokab nogah is Venus. The Sumerians recorded heavy rain in the mountains during close Venus passages. The Greeks mentioned that Venus had a coma, a vapor tail. Venus synchronizes its rotation at conjunctions with Earth, as though it was once tidally affected by our planet. (5) All societies a few millennia ago remembered the shattering of a great planet at close range. The Bible mentions a planet shattering four times, using similar expressions as the Canaanites. The solar system contains thousands of fractured planet pieces (asteroids and comets). (6) We have records from a few thousand years ago of people traveling extraordinary distances in short periods - such as Jacob, Alexander and Xenophon. (7) A sequence of astronomers measured a decreasing optical parallax to the planets and the Sun. Even in the twenty first century the optical parallax to Mars at opposition and Venus during the recent transit showed an increased distance to the Sun. Yet the canonical clock derived (radar) distances stay the same. (8) The earliest astronomical record preserves the dates of Venus' rises and sets during the 21-year reign of Ammizaduga. The Ammizaduga synodic cycle is close to the number of days in Venus' modern orbit. The number of days when Venus was invisible behind the Sun it too long, by weeks, while the evening and morning phases are correspondingly too short. On one occasion Venus transited from evening to morning in one day. This could only happen if Venus passed at close range.

Modern astronomers measure clock-like orbits with clocks. Are clocks linear? The only way to test the linearity of clocks is to compare clocks from the past with modern clocks. Forty years ago, we sent two Pioneer spacecraft with calibrated clocks in opposite directions out of the solar system. The farther the radios transmitted the clock signals (from the past), the more the signals slowed down relative to NASA's current clocks. This fits what we generally observe in the universe. The fastest (normally energized) atomic clocks are local and the farther away a galaxy, the slower its atomic spectrum. Orbits apparently are clock-like because both orbits and clocks accelerate together as we observe in the history of galaxies.

The Bible mentions the olam (eon) age of the Earth. It also preserves the genealogies of our ancestors. The sum of all genealogies adds up to about six thousand years. How could both be true? If gravity has a finite speed, both the duration of Earth years and days would continually shorten. A single day in antiquity would have been ponderously slow. The ancients mentioned how the first generations lived in the days of kronos, time. They mentioned how they slept their lives away before new seas formed. A single winter could produce an ice age. A single lifetime, a few thousand years ago, could encompass geological ages. Job mentions that the sea (west) dried up as a marker for the length of a lifetime. He also graphically describes giant dinosaurs. Indeed, the Glomar Challenger drill ship discovered multiple layers of gypsum and anhydrite sandwiched between deep sea oozes in the Mediterranean. Apparently Job's western sea did dry up repeatedly, which he used as a marker for what he considered the brevity of life. What could cause men to live for vast eons, yet Job probably only lived a little over two hundred years?

The smallest of all phenomena - gravity - affects both the duration of years and days. What is gravity? Whatever it is, it must be related to the way the properties of matter keep changing visibly throughout cosmic history. The most powerful evidence that the properties of matter are emerging is the galactic continuum, how the galaxies grew from the insides outwards. What is visible does not fit any modern theory of gravity. Think about it.
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