RE: The speed of light, stars, and YEC?
September 23, 2015 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 23, 2015 at 9:41 pm by Alex K.)
No, this funny alternative synchronization convention which gives you the one-way infinite speed of light, the one creationists love so much, is not measurable or testable, because it is a convention - a relabelling of the space and time axes if you will.
The whole thing is not nearly as deep as it seems at first glance. It boils down to an admittedly astonishing property of special relativity: that one can consistently claim that all events the news of which couldn't have reached us due to speed of light limitations, haven't actually happened yet - without running into contradictions.
For example, when you watch Andromeda, in standard lingo the things you see in the telescope have happened roughy 3 million years ago. Now do this: Simply *call* the time at which they have happened on Andromeda "2015" and then act like anything after the events you observe on Andromeda now, hasn't happened yet - which you can do if you postulate a you-o-centric universe. That's it.
The whole thing is not nearly as deep as it seems at first glance. It boils down to an admittedly astonishing property of special relativity: that one can consistently claim that all events the news of which couldn't have reached us due to speed of light limitations, haven't actually happened yet - without running into contradictions.
For example, when you watch Andromeda, in standard lingo the things you see in the telescope have happened roughy 3 million years ago. Now do this: Simply *call* the time at which they have happened on Andromeda "2015" and then act like anything after the events you observe on Andromeda now, hasn't happened yet - which you can do if you postulate a you-o-centric universe. That's it.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
