Can this be verified? Can we verify that something going at light speed will not experience time?
Do photons degrade?
Hello Zetetica,
Are you a Christian believer in the Word of God, and believe God Created the Universe in six days? Or are you an atheist, flat earth, scientist?
I will list things I think about, that might be different, in, God's Creation mode, over how they are today, as the final product. There is a lot of unknown possibility out there happening during six days of Creation. Atheist scientists have to prove all possible paths of creation wrong, in a six day Time Dilation Creation, while we only have to find one possible way of Time Dilation that works. The burden of proof, that Time Dilation Creation could not happen, is on atheist scientists, not on six day, Creationists.
As a Christian, whose focus is on building the Kingdom of God on earth through our work of evangelization, we should focus on this. Let the atheists scientists attack us on how our Omnipotent God could not use Time Dilation to Create billions of years of star formation, in six days. It is atheist scientists job to find ways to demand that God's Creation, did not happen in six days, not ours. We simply want atheist scientists to get off our backs until they can figure out a way to prove God wrong. Which they won't, because there are a tremendous amount of things that they have to prove, absolutely could not happen, for God to Create the universe, through Time Dilation, in six days. Why would you, a verse by verse Christian Creationist, want to prove God wrong?
Here are some things I just, off the top of my head, think about, when thinking about three days of Creation, with earth at near the speed of light, before earth is caught in our sun's gravity, on the Fourth Day of Creation.
Earth was Created before everything else, including light, was Created. Then the mass of one septillion stars came into existence, on the head of a needle, next to earth. Was earth the size of an electron, or smaller, at Creation day One? How does the initial expansion of the universe in milliseconds effect earth, which was created separately, did everything else expand faster than earth? Science sees empty space flowing out into existence from, what they interpret as the 'big bang' beginning of it all. Was earth maybe just sitting there in front of the big bang as empty space came into existence, between earth and the big bang, thus causing velocity and Time Dilation? It is easier to accelerate empty space to the speed of light, past earth, than to accelerate the mass of the earth, into empty space.
All the mass of one septillion stars exploded, generating light, and everything else, other than earth, in our universe. Everything else, other than earth, has gravity pulling on it, back toward the big bang where it exploded from. Earth only has only the gravity, of the mass of one septillion stars, pulling it one direction, toward the big bang; This is a massive amount of force, maybe even infinite amount of force, pulling on earth, certainly enough force to bring earth to near the speed of light. Gravity has a speed, so gravity traveling from mass heading towards earths, will hit earth quicker than gravity from mass heading away from earth; how does this effect the pull of gravity on earth? Every atom in the universe pulls toward every other atom in the universe; how does this effect a star ship cutting through these bonds; which would not be present for earth, which was Created outside of everything else?
How about dark matter and energy, which we cannot see, yet we know dark mater mysteriously holds the whole universe together? Did God use dark matter to hold earth together under acceleration/deceleration. Was earth already at the speed of light when God brought it into existence. How would it be if earth were caught in a black hole (time slows down in a black hole due to gravitational Time Dilation). We can go on with a tremendous list of possibilities of what was different during Creation, and atheist scientist have the burden of proving all possibilities, wrong, to prove God wrong.
The big thing to remember is that God tells us that earth was Created first, then the rest of the universe, including light, was created. Earth was Created outside of the big bang and ahead of the time of big bang. This changes the picture drastically from atheist scientists view of earth coming into existence from within the big bang.
All we need is one path for atheist scientist to agree, that yes, a six days on earth, Time Dilation Creation, is possible. Then they will leave us alone and we can get back to the work of our Lord, in evangelizing the world.