The Milky Way is surrounded by more than a dozen dwarf galaxies, some of which can be seen with bare eyeballs. The Magellanic Clouds are two such companions that look like miniature glowing clouds to the naked eyes. Two dwarf Milky Way companions were discovered in the last ten years. The Canis Major dwarf galaxy is even closer to Earth than the center of the Milky Way.Two astronomers from the University of California at Berkeley, Sukanya Chakrabarti and Leo Blitz, predict that a dwarf galaxy lies on the other side of the Milky Way. Their prediction is based on calculations using cold hydrogen gas near the fringes of the Milky Way. Chakrabarit thinks that “Galaxy X” might be mostly dark matter. They hope the Spitzer Infrared Telescope might glimpse a few stars in the undetected galaxy.
 

What exactly is dark matter? It gets its name from the fact that it is completely invisible. Most astronomers believe that all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are surrounded by a halo of invisible dark matter. Why is dark matter invisible? The fact that natural matter is visible and extended in space results from light / electron interactions that produce most of matter's properties. Astro physicists speculate that invisible matter does not interact with light at all. If you were hit by an invisible rock falling from space, it should pass right through you without hurting, since it supposedly only interacts gravitationally. Scientists claim to detect invisible matter by calculating its gravitational effects on visible matter. Since galactic stars and gas in billions of galaxies never seem to follow the scientific laws of gravity, scientist preserve their laws by inventing undetectable stuff. Stop and think for a second. How could dwarf galaxies be moving through a sea of invisible stuff that far outweighs them, without being gravitationally shredded?

How do astronomers, who we pay to observe of the universe’s light, come to believe in magical stuff, things on one has observed in any experiment, with any telescope or in any laboratory? Scientists simply are not trained to consider the validity of the scientific first principle. What is a first principle? It is the historical elementary assumption upon which generations of scientists built their way of thinking, measuring and mathematicating. What exactly is this first principle? All scientists accept by faith that the properties of matter are fixed, not emerging. They cannot question this assumption because even their definitions, measuring units and mathematical constants depend on it. Scientists use thousands of measuring symbols that depend on the notion that atoms are immutable and dither with perpetual motion.

Why should they have such a strong faith in their empirical system when they could just believe the light gathered by their telescopes? Not a single one of the hundreds of billions of ancient galaxies shines with the light frequencies of modern atoms. Not a single galaxy follows their mathematical rules of gravity. Instead of believing the light from long ago, they fill the universe up with invisible things. They claim there is several times as much dark matter as the normal, visible kind. They claim that the vacuum of space, which they call space-time, is stretching out. As the vacuum stretches, it allegedly changes the frequencies of all light passing through the vacuum. They even speculate that stretching vacuums move galaxies as they stand still relative to local space. No one has ever detected vacuums that alter light frequencies or vacuums that stretch themselves. Scientists even admit that their universe is 99% invisible.

Even a child can be a biblical physicist, since it is neither mathematical nor complex. Biblical physics is based on the biblical statement that the whole creation is enslaved to change (Greek phthora). Anyone  can compare the light spectra from long ago galaxies with local spectra. None of the ancient galaxies shone with the light spectra (frequencies) of modern atoms. Evidently matter keeps on changing its properties throughout cosmic history. Even when we sent precision clocks out of the solar system, their clock derived radio signals (arriving from the past) kept slowing (relative to NASA's hydrogen masers of the moment, the farther the Pioneer spacecraft got from Earth (the Pioneer Anomaly).

The Bible states that God created (completed action) the plural heavens first. Then he formed the stars and placed them in the raqiya shamayim (spreading place in the plural heavens). We observe that the earliest galaxies were naked dwarfs. The stars came out of those tohu bohu (formless) cores and spread out, accelerated out, as billions of galaxies grew from the insides outwards. We often observe chains of blue miniature galaxies (or globular clusters) around redder primordial galactic cores. Sometimes we can see wisps of gas connecting the galaxies in the chain. Even the dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way have rivers of hydrogen in their wake. For example, the Magellanic galaxies are connected to the south end of the Milky Way by a river of cold neutral hydrogen gas. Evidently they were ejected from the Milky Way core just as we observe in countless distant, early galaxies.

The scientific version of cosmic history denies the visible history of galaxies. They claim stars and galaxies accreted out of space dust. They claim galaxies merged to form larger ones. THey claim this happened because there is much more invisible matter than the natural kind. Yet we can see a biblical cosmic history with our eyes. The visible history of galaxies fits the claims of the Biblical Creator that He is calling the stars to come out in unbroken continuity. He spreads out the plural heavens like a tent. The visible history of galaxies only supports a literal, hermeneutical biblical creation. There in the plural heavens, in the spreading places, we can see how God can make foolish the wisdom of this age, science.

The picture is of dwarf galaxy POX 186 from NASA Hubble Space Telescope. It has a single tadpole tail emerging from its core. I have slightly enhansed the contrast so you can see the granuality of the single emerging tail. SImilar galaxies are common in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, often with distinct separate globs making up one or more tails. In more mature galaxies we see that the globs accelerated out and spread out from the core. We see that spiral galaxies grew from tiny naked globs to huge spread out growth spirals. How could this be? We observe at many ranges that the properties of matter kept on changing throughout cosmic history - just as one would expect from several biblical passages.

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