Nebulae and Biblical Cosmic History.
Planetary nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in
space. (They looked a little like fuzzy planets in
the telescopes of the 18th century, which is how they got the name
planetary.) Planetary nebulae
have very strange and varied shapes. Some have jets, intersecting
rings, spirals, butterflies
or faint concentric circles. The Cat's
Eye nebula (photo #1 in the
strip) has two jets, knots, twists, offset rings and a halo of
concentric
shells.
Obviously the structure took a long time to
form, yet no one understands the
processes that cause long term jets. NWC
922 (#2) looks like a perfect
square. The
ejecting star continues to
rotate as it shoots out diametrically opposed jets. We see it
perpendicular to the ejection cones. The Ant Nebula (#3)
has twin
clouds of gas moving out perpendicular to our line of sight. All planetary nebulae are expanding as the
host star blows out gases.
In the case of the
Red Spider (#4), it is
not easy to visualize the expansion. Chinese and Arab astronomers
recorded the explosive beginning of the
Crab Nebula in 1054 AD. In
visible light, the
Crab (#5) looks like a glowing cloud with many filaments.
However, x-rays reveal that the Crab
(#6) has an internal bipolar
shape. Nebulae have emission spectra from gases that glow in reflected
starlight. The light
from the nearest nebula, the Helix, supposedly spent 450 years on its
journey to Earth. The light from Magellanic
Cloud nebulae
took more than a hundred thousand modern-years to reach earth.
Cosmology is the branch of
astrophysics that deals with the universe's structures and origins.
Western cosmologists use physics to try and understand the universe.
Western physics depends on the Greek assumption that matter does
that
change relationally as it ages. Biblical
physics is based on the biblical statement that everything in
creation is phthora,
fundamentally changing. Since
the Bible acknowledges fundamental changes in matter and science does
not, the biblical history of the universe is vastly different from
scientific cosmology.
Job is the oldest
book
in the Bible. It clearly describes two kinds of dinosaurs living
alongside of men. In Job 37:18
Elihu states, "Can
you, with Him, spread out
the skies,
strong as a molten mirror?" This translation uses 13 words, but the
original Hebrew only has five,
two of which are verbs. The verb 'raqa' is hilphil imperfect - an
incomplete process of
spreading something into a cloud. The second verb is 'yatsaq' - a
hophal
participle that means something
dense is poured out in unbroken continuity. The word for sky. 'shachaq'
is only used 21
times in the Bible. It is usually translated clouds. Elihu believed that
dense things were continually being spread out into thin clouds. Isaiah
40:22 "It
is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are
like grasshoppers, Who
stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a
tent to dwell in." In this verse, the
translators used 'curtain' to render the Hebrew 'doq' that
means
something thin or fine. He is actively and continually spreading out
the heavens into something fine. He is spreading
it
out like a nomads tent, an
incomplete action. Large clouds of
spreading star dust and gas seem to fit
Elihu's and Isaiah's statements.
Many Christians struggle
with the apparent age of the universe. They properly count the biblical
generations and come up with about 6,000 years. They also try to
understand the universe from the perspective of Western science, the
way of thinking they learned in
school. Westerners have not found a way
to fit distant star
eruptions into a 6,000
year cosmic history.
The
Western concept of time is very recent. No ancient people, anywhere,
imagined that time had a private existence, that it was a thing. They
also looked back on the
past as
the great time, the owlam, the vast eons. Yet Westerners speculate that
time exists in and of itself and that clocks measure equal
durations. The simplest way to test whether
clocks really do measure linear time is by comparing ancient clocks in
the distant heavens. Ancient atomic clocks
visibly clocked
"seconds" that were vastly slower than those from modern atoms. Atomic
clocks in billions of galaxies, at many ranges, visibly
accelerate
their clock frequencies the closer to Earth they shine
Linear time is based on an assumption
that is
accepted in a dogmatic way. This assumption was invented by a pagan
Greek more than 2300 years ago. Aristotle wrote that we must assume
that the properties of matter are fixed (not emergent). Over the past few
hundred years, scientist built their empirical system of measuring and
mathematicating on Aristotle's assumption that matter is not
changing itself as it ages. It
is impossible to invent a precise clock that measures equally weighted
seconds without
assuming that atoms are always doing perpetual motion. Since distant atomic clocks
always pulse with different rates than local atoms, scientists make up
mathematical stories about vacuous processes.
Many of them actually
believe that the vacuum somehow changes the received light frequencies
of all
ancient atomic clocks. Yet no one ever detected any light frequencies
changing as they pass through an empty void. In most cases,
scientists never question the
existence of perpetual motion atoms. After all, they measured them with
their assumption that the properties of matter are not emergent.
Biblical time statements do NOT fit the
Western way of thinking. For example,
Westerners often ask, were the creation days 24 hours in duration? In Moses' days,
durations were inseparable from the motions of the heavenly bodies. How could one
determine a duration when the Sun, Moon and stars were not formed until
the
fourth evening and morning? During the Old Testament era, everyone
believed that the first people lived in the great time, the vast eons.
Do the motions of the heavenly bodies accelerate?
We
see billions of ancient galaxies
as they looked long ago.
The earliest galaxies were naked, packed with tiny stars. At closer
ranges we often see granulated
jets bracketing the nucleus of ancient galaxies. Here
is a
picture of a long ago 
galaxy, #270 in the Hubble Deep
South. It has little clumps of star clusters just
beginning to form a two-armed spiral galaxy. At closer ranges, in
many galaxies, we see that the little clumps keep on rotating out,
accelerating outward.
When we compare galaxies at many ranges (eras) we see that billions of
galaxies grew
into great, dusty, growth
spirals. This visible evidence violates every law and principle of
scientific physics. Why? The atomic clocks and the orbits are both
accelerating as billions of galaxies continually grow. This is simple,
visible
evidence that all matter
keeps on changing its properties
throughout cosmic history. In spiral galaxies we see that the star
paths do NOT lap the nucleus as one would run laps around a racetrack.
Instead they spiral outward, continuously accelerating as they spread
outwards.
Everywhere
in the
universe, we observe that matter is always
changing its properties relationally. It is always changing its
quantum
frequencies. The most distant matter glows at minuscule frequencies
compared to modern matter. Its inertial properties are always changing
as the stars
move
in the opposite direction of
the laws of scientific physics. Matter keeps on taking
up
more
volume as it spreads out in the
heavens, taking up more volume like a tent.
Do atoms expand as they age? Even
on our own plane
t we see evidence that
matter changes itself. The continents
only fit together on a tiny globe. Two thirds
of the Earth's crust, the deep oceans, is made of new basalt. A great
expansion seam
runs through every ocean. The expansion seam visibly spreads out from
one year to the next, continually forming new ocean crust. Subduction
is the theory that the Earth swallows its own
crust to keep it from getting bigger. The
layered, undisturbed
sediments in the ocean trenches clearly show that subduction is a
scientific myth. How could soft ocean oozes push their way into the
molten high pressure interior of the Earth without leaving scrapped off
sediments or volcanic blow backs? Three times the Bible states that the
earth spreads
out in unbroken continuity. How simple is the
evidence that supports biblical physics. Every bit of matter in the
whole universe visibly keeps on changing its properties. Think about it.
The image of the growing earth is from the Wikipedia Commons created by
Michael
Netzer - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Growing_earth.gif
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