Ultra
Violet
Rings
Around
Ancient
Elliptical Galaxies
Recently GALEX, an ultra violet space telescope, took
pictures of 30 extremely distant elliptical
galaxies and found UV rings and arcs. Subsequently the Hubble space
telescope also found rings, pulsed jets and even nascent
spiral arms around the ancient galaxies. The blue parts of each
image is from the GALEX UV camera while the white, yellow, green and
red parts were imaged
with the Hubble. Telescopic photos of closer elliptical
galaxies show
fuzzy halos of globular
clusters. Wide views show that they are often located in the
center of galaxy clusters,
surrounded by dense numbers of small spirals and irregulars.
Are the blue arcs condensations from gas or perhaps collisions
with an unseen galaxy?
Astronomers often claim that stars are born by condensation, as gas
gravitates together. What
little gas that exists in elliptical galaxies does not concentrate into
clouds,
so where did the ultra violet
structures come from? An even more basic question is, how do stars form
to begin with? If
enough gas could gravitate together to start fusion, the radiation
pressure should prevent any
further accretion. Large, hot, blue stars are evidence against the
theory that stars condensed out of
external gases, such as in the speculated big bang.
The universe is evidence for biblical
physics, not science. The Bible
clearly states that the
creation is in bondage to change (Greek phthora). In general, the more
distant the galaxy, the
more its light shines at much lower frequencies than modern, local
atoms. Scientists, however, claim to measure intrinsically
unchanging
atoms. A truth seeker should carefully examine the
assumption upon which such scientific claims depend. Scientific
definitions, measuring units and
mathematical constants depend on the assumption that the properties of
matter are fixed, not
emerging. For example, scientists define time and seconds with atomic
clocks that allegedly
dither with perpetual motion. The only way to test whether clocks are
changing speed is to
compare clocks from yesterday with those from today. We actually sent
two spaceships with
calibrated clocks into the remotest parts of the solar system. The
clock-derived radio signals keep
slowing (relative to current clocks). The Pioneer Anomaly correlated
with distance
(the past), not velocity as one
would expect if it was a Doppler shift. Evidently the fastest normally
energized atomic clocks are local.
Why can't scientists acknowledge the
overwhelming evidence that atomic
clocks continue to
change speed throughout cosmic history? They cannot because their
definitions, methods,
empirical system and even their mathematics depends on a historical
assumption from a Greek philosopher. He claimed that an underlying
essence (hypokeimenon)
of all things remains unchanged.
The Apostle Peter predicted that in the last days mockers would
obfuscate (lanthano) the age of
the starry heavens (ouranoi esan ekpalai) because they believe that all
things remain the same.
The vast
continuum of
galactic history is the only history that is visible exactly as it
happened.
This is because light has a finite speed and the voids between galaxy
clusters allow light to pass
unhindered from the ancient universe. What is visible confirms
biblical cosmic history. Isaiah
40:26 "Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth
their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the
greatness of His might and the
strength of His power, Not one of them is missing." 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."
The earliest, most distant
galaxies, are naked. Their atoms generally shone at microwave and
infrared frequencies. At closer ranges we see strings of blue globs
surrounding primordial cores.
The continuum of galactic history shows that these globs accelerated
out, spread out, rotated
around more as billions of galaxies grew from the insides outwards.
This could only happen if
the properties of matter change relationally.
For several decades
scientists have been baffled by the enigmatic nature of matter, its
dual and non local properties. The best way to understand the nature of
things is to begin your quest
using the creation account. Elohim first finished creating the heavens
and the earth, all of it.
However, the earth was formless and dark until God continued to command
light to continually
be. It was the light that gave matter its form, its ability to take up
space. All matter involves a
dynamic relation with light - the most active thing in the universe.
Later Elohim formed the Sun,
Moon and stars from the matter that had its beginnings on day one. He
placed the heavenly
bodies in the spreading place, the shamayim raqiya. The history of
spiral galaxies confirms that
stars spread out, concurrently with the changing properties
of matter.
Do elliptical
galaxies also spread
out? Above is an
X-ray image of the
internal structure of NGC 4679. The dark areas are the outsides of the
elliptical and the light blue is the elliptical galaxy. X-ray globs
in strings are evidently moving out. The next image is NGC 4696 that
shows huge
dust lanes. Perhaps these are the
remnant of energetic rings like the ones GALEX photographed from the
ancient univerese. Composite images of
this galaxy shows a
distant sea of X-rays (energetic particles colliding); a closer
swath
of radio waves; vast numbers
of globular clusters (the halo) and the dust lanes that are
evidence of an ancient event.
How old is the univers
e?
It
is
olam, eons old, just like the text of the Bible states. How could
the
universe be old when the biblical account only provides us with about
6,000 years of history? Try
to understand the text with hermeneutics, instead of interpreting it
with
science. Also try
looking at the universe with optics, instead of assumptions about
clock-like orbits. We can see
that atomic clocks concurrently speed up as the star streams in
countless spirals accelerate
outwards. What is visible is what our ancestors recorded
a few thousand
years ago here on our
earth - that the earliest generations lived for vast eons and the
length of life continued to degenerate. The Bible even records
that in Job's days their faces doubled as
they lived for geological ages. We find skulls from our ancestors with
huge thick brows. If we lived for geological ages, our brows would also
grow thick.
Carefully test the first principle of
modern science by examining
the vast universe. What we see is biblical cosmic history and evidence
for biblical
physics.
How great will be the fall
of western science before the word of God. Where
will the evidence come from? The shamayim raqiya reveals His
glory -
the billions of spreading galaxies visible with telescopes.
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