space-time – Matty (Headwind)

September 27, 2021October 2, 2021

New gravitational wave detector picks up possible signal from the beginning of time

Artis impression of what gravitational waves might look like

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

Bumps in detector could point to new physics.

Two intriguing signals spotted in a small gravitational-wave detector could represent all kinds of exotic phenomena — from new physics to dark matter interacting with black holes to vibrations from near the beginning of the universe.

August 14, 2021

Triassic

August 14

I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
(Malachi 1:2-3) KJV

The Triassic is another microcosm of inductive reductive circular reasoning that we may wryly refer to as an “eddy in the space-time continuum.”

July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

The Role of Dark Matter

Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, And My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, They stand up together.
(Isaiah 48:13) NKJV

The first axiom of popular science (SciPop) is there’s a causal relationship between space-time and gravity. It’s embodied in Newton’s law of universal gravitation. It’s wishful thinking, an opportunistic rationalization of circumstantial evidence.

April 18, 2021July 25, 2021

The Sun also Arises

April 18

The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
(Ecclesiastes 1:5) ESV

Einstein is attributed with the formal acknowledgement that space is curved. What does that really mean? Quite simply space is spherical and Earth is at the center. It’s empirical.

February 24, 2021

Newton’s Perpetual Motion Machine

He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
(Hebrews 1:3) ESV

Every particle in the universe is emitting a stream of bosons all the time in proportion to its total energy, which takes energy, so why isn’t the universe cooling off and running out of energy?

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Gravity was Created on the Second Day

a drawing compass and the creation of gravity on the second day

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:1-2) ESV

Gravity was created on the second day. Matter space and time existed before gravity was created. This has profound significance for theoretical Physics but we’re going to ignore that for now.

December 22, 2020

The Field Value for Acceleration due to Gravity, g

Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.
(Ecclesiastes 10:18) ESV

In popular science (SciPop) the mass of the Earth is calculated by knowing:

its radius,
the gravitational constant big G,
little g, the field value for acceleration due to gravity.

July 24, 2020July 25, 2020

The High Price of Epistemological Buffoonery

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(Luke 16:23) KJV

Threatening people with hell isn’t an effective communication technique. You’ll be dismissed as a kook. The problem is, despite the fact that popular science (SciPop) appears to have a compelling rationale for why hell isn’t at the center of the Earth, it’s very easy to demonstrate the weaknesses of this rationale.

July 19, 2020December 27, 2020

Gravity and the Soul

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
(Psalms 139:15) KJV

God created gravity on the second day to permanently separate light from darkness, good from evil. The first gravitational singularity is at the center of the Earth. Singularities may be at the center of the sun and the other planets.

July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

A Great Gulf

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
(Luke 16:25-26) NKJV

We’re at a great advantage over the spaghetti theologians because we’ve deduced how the passage from Luke resolves with a physical reality. We don’t regard any part of this parable as being metaphorical or allegorical.