We all know God created the heavens and the earth in 7 "days". That's what the Bible says. One can assume that means the universe.
My question is this: if one is to take the Bible literally about how it was created, that would put the earth at around 7,000 years old.
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its value is 299,792,458 metres per second, a figure that is exact because the length of the metre is defined from this constant and the international standard for time. In imperial units this speed is approximately 186,282 miles per second.
Given the distance (on a cosmological scale) between stars, it would take MUCH longer than 7,000 years for the light of those stars to become visible to the human eye in our solar system. Hundreds of thousands of years it would take for light to travel at 186,282 miles per second at those distances.
So how is this? If the earth is only 7,000 years old, all those stars in the night sky would not yet be visible to us because their photons would not have reached us.
Whatever the case, our God is big.
My question is this: if one is to take the Bible literally about how it was created, that would put the earth at around 7,000 years old.
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its value is 299,792,458 metres per second, a figure that is exact because the length of the metre is defined from this constant and the international standard for time. In imperial units this speed is approximately 186,282 miles per second.
Given the distance (on a cosmological scale) between stars, it would take MUCH longer than 7,000 years for the light of those stars to become visible to the human eye in our solar system. Hundreds of thousands of years it would take for light to travel at 186,282 miles per second at those distances.
So how is this? If the earth is only 7,000 years old, all those stars in the night sky would not yet be visible to us because their photons would not have reached us.
Whatever the case, our God is big.