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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
(2 Peter 3:8) KJV
If we’re correct and gravity is a field emitted from the center of the Earth which causes gravitational time dilation (GTD), then we should have an accurate data point with the time dilation between the Earth and Mars.
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The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
(Ecclesiastes 1:5) NKJV
In the time we’ve spent arguing on Twitter one of the points of contention is: which is real, epicycles or retrograde motion? Arguments get nowhere because the answer is: both, depending on your frame of reference.
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Researchers have found that mile-high mounds in Mars were created by strong winds and climate change.
Because of climate change, water on Mars dried up and allowed massive winds to carve out large mounds over a billion years, according to University of Texas researchers. The process highlighted the role of wind in creating the landscape of the red planet.
“On Mars there are no plate-tectonics, and there’s no liquid water, so you don’t have anything to overprint that signature and over billions of years you get these mounds, which speaks to how much geomorphic change you can really instigate with just wind,” said graduate student Mackenzie Day of the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.
She said that the process is something that cannot occur on Earth because of other processes that overpower wind.
“Wind could never do this on Earth because water acts so much faster, and tectonics act so much faster,” Day explained.
The research was conducted in association with researchers David Mohrig and Gary Kocurek, also of the Jackson School of Geosciences, and William Anderson of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas. The study was publshed in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters on March 31.
The mounds, first observed in the 1970s during NASA’s Viking program, were found to be at the bottom of Mars’ craters. An additional investigation by the Curiosity rover of Mount Sharp inside the Gale Crater showed the mounds were more than 3 miles high.
Layered sedimentary rocks make up the thickest part of the mounds, with the bottom parts showing sediments brought by water that was previously present in the crater. The top part is made up of sediments carried by wind.
The researchers are clueless about the how the mile-high mounds were able to form inside the craters considering that these were once filled with sediments. However, they are positive that they will be able to figure out the wind dynamics that made it possible.
To find out if wind could indeed form a mound, the research team created a model crater that measured 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) in width and 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) high and filled it with damp sand. They then placed the miniature crater in a wind tunnel and observed the movement of the sand.
The elevation and distribution of the sand were carefully monitored until all of it was blown away. The erosion present in the miniature crater’s sediment was found to be similar with those seen in the Martian craters. The erosion also created a moat shaped like a crescent that widened and deepened around the crater’s edge.
To get a better understanding of the wind dynamics, the study authors built a computer model that replicated the flow of wind at different phases of erosion.
The mound’s composition – bottom created during a wet period, and top created and mound shaped during a dry period – significantly helps in establishing the effects of climate change on Mars, Kocurek said.
“Overall, we are seeing the complete remaking of the sedimentary cycle on Mars to the one that characterizes the planet today,” Kocurek said.
By studying the location of more than 30 mounds and identifying them to be only present on terrain during the Noachian period, a geological era about 3.7 billion years ago, the researchers concluded that it was during this period that Mars shifted from a wet planet to a dry one.
To compare, they examined five examples of mounds in craters formed during Mars’ Amazonian period. The deposits were not similar with the sedimentary deposits, which means the erosion came from a recent activity.
The study showed that global climate change and strong winds, not some alien like the alleged giant mouse, caused the mounds on the Martian surface.
The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
(Revelation 8:10-11) ESV
“Worlds in Collision” is the title of a book by Immanuel Velikovsky in which he proposes, that some of the Exodus plagues were caused by successive close approaches to Earth by the planet Venus.
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And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
(Joshua 10:11) KJV
There are vast areas of sedimentary deposits which contain the remains of entire schools of fish, such that their bodies are in the millions. How could this happen in a flood of water?
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This is a direct copy of a SciPop or news article preserved here because things on the internet have a bad habit of disappearing when you try to find them again. Full credit is given to the original authors and the source.
– Matty
In a new study, a team of scientists announced it has discovered the world’s oldest fossils, dating back some 3.77 billion years (and possibly as far back as 4.28 billion years).
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And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
(Deuteronomy 4:19) NKJV
Retrograde motion is often described as a “big problem” for the Geocentrospheric model, but this exposes a failure by those who believe this to comprehend two concepts frame of reference and relative motion.
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Let’s start by getting some definitions right, specifically, let’s really pin down where I stand as compared to others that are similar, but not quite.
Geocentrism, for instance, is an attempt to be faithful to Biblical teachings while missing the mark on actually understanding anything. Geocentricity, the belief of the Geocentrism movement, as advocated by the Association for Biblical Astronomy (ABA) is an absolute shambles. On the one hand it is motivated by the good intent of being faithful to the Bible, which teaches a central earth, but it does not allow for a finite cosmos bounded by a crystalline firmament. Sadly, geocentrism didn’t figure out Newton’s Switcheroo, so they are trying to shoehorn geocentricity into the cosmological model of the dominant paradigm of modern science: The sun is vastly more massive than the earth, our sun is one of billions of suns, and the firmament is the empty medium of space in which the stars and planetary bodies move.
As crazy as it sounds, there is also a Flat Earth movement that is very confused by thinking that they believe the Bible and Geocentricity. Flat Earth is just stupid. It’s an example of what happens when people who have no discernment, probably because they are not born again believers, try to handle the teachings of the Bible. They come to the scripture with an agenda and they willfully bend the meanings to fit their desired outcome. Literal and figurative get switched, and you end up with a cosmology that is neither Biblical nor can account for modern scientific observations.
Matty’s Paradigm is neither Geocentrism, Geocentricity nor Flat Earth
The model of creation that I am proposing involves the creation of gravity on the second day. A specific point was chosen upon which God metaphorically set a compass (the drawing instrument, not direction finder) and drew a circle on the mass of water that was present. The central point of the compass, the focus, became the location of gravity, a singularity in current technical jargon. The circle describes the location of the firmament, a sphere of crystal that surrounds the cosmos, which is the location of God’s throne and the sea of glass.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: (Proverbs 8:27)
This model has profound implications for our understanding of astronomy. It fixes a major flaw in the explanation of Kepler’s 1st Law, which science either avoids with glib dismissals or makes up fictional explanations for. What we have to bear in mind is a promise that God has made to us regarding what we will be able to learn about the universe and the earth:
Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 31:37)
God does not cast off the seed of Israel, therefore we cannot measure the heavens or know what in in the innermost parts of the earth.
Reality
We have to acknowledge that even though it seems as if we know a great deal about the stars, planets, distant suns and galaxies and such, there are no actual measurements of the distance to any of these heavenly bodies. There are no actual measurements of their mass. The reason that we have numbers for these properties is through the use of mathematics, and the math is based on certain assumptions.
The calculations are based upon the mathematics of gravity developed by Sir Isaac Newton. The mathematical construct of the universe that is in use today is based on a simple, unproven assumption: The Earth orbits the Sun.
If this is were the case, then the mass of the Sun is calculated using Newton’s Law of Gravity:
GMm/r^2
It is based on the following assumptions:
The Sun ‘s mass is therefore calculated to be enough to cause the orbit of the earth to take 365 days. There is a good explantion of the mathematical process used, here:
The first problem with this system is the main assumption: Earth does not orbit the sun. If we apply the same mathematics to the assumption that the sun orbits the earth, we get mass values for the planetary bodies that are smaller by a factor of 9.87E-12. This is called Matty’s Constant.
Secondly, this now affects our calculation of the distance to the Sun. This distance is calculated by knowing the distance to all of the other planets. This is done using parallax. This presents a problem, because the theory of parallax also depends on the idea that the earth and other planets orbit the Sun. It should be clear that the theoretical basis of the current understanding of the universe is based on assumptions that are unprovable. There are no actual measurements. Fortunately, however, this does not mean that the calculations and relative motions of the Sun, Moon and Stars are of no value. This is because we have Newton’s Inverse Square Law.
The Inverse Square Law is the best recipe for fudge in the universe. What it means is that in the heliocentric system the Sun is going to be 93 million miles away and have a mass of 1.989 × 10^30 Kg, but it can also account for a geocentric system where the Sun is much less massive. The gravitational effect on the Earth is the same, it is all relative.
We know that the difference between a heliocentric theory and a geocentric theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance. (Sir Fred Hoyle in Astronomy and Cosmology, 1975, p. 416.)
Matty’s Paradigm
An Earth centered cosmos is called Geocentric. However, because of the vast amount of baggage attached to the use of the word “Geocentric,” we’re just going to have to refer to our cosmological model as Matty’s Paradigm. The Sun, Moon and stars describe for us the signs and seasons. Stars are not distant suns. We don’t know what they are, and there is only one sun. The Earth does not have a daily rotation. The Sun and stars orbit either the Sun, which orbits the Earth, or they orbit the Earth/Sun system.
Early models of the Heliocentric solar system showed that the planets have elliptical orbits. This was not a feature of the Geocentric model at that time and this contributed to its rejection. Ellipses are orbits that are not circular, but watermelon shaped. Ellipses can be drawn but it requires that there are two foci, whereas a circle has only one focus. However, the Earth has an orbit of the Sun that is an almost perfect circle. The distance to the Sun does not vary. The other planets have elliptical orbits because they are affected by the gravity of both the Earth and the Sun.
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