Because Galaxies Are Billions of Light-Years Away, Isn=92t the Universe
Billions of Years Old? 10
A Critical Test: If the speed of light has decreased a millionfold,
we should observe events in outer space in extreme slow motion. Here
is why:
Imagine a time in the distant past when the speed of light was a
million times faster than it is today. On a hypothetical planet,
billions of light-years from Earth, a light started flashing toward
Earth every second. Each flash then began a very long trip to Earth.
Because the speed of light was a million times greater than it is
today, those initial flashes were spaced a million times farther apart
than they would have been at today=92s slower speed of light.
Now, thousands of years later, imagine that throughout the universe,
the speed of light has slowed to today=92s speed. The first of those
light flashes=97strung out like beads sliding down a long string=97are
approaching Earth. The large distances separating adjacent flashes
have remained constant during those thousands of years, so the moving
flashes slowed in unison. Because the first flashes to strike Earth
are spaced so far apart, they will strike Earth every million seconds.
In other words, we are seeing past events on that planet (the flashing
of a light) in slow motion. If the speed of light has been decreasing
since the creation, then the farther out in space we look, the more
extreme this slow motion becomes.
About half the stars in our galaxy are binary. That is, they and a
companion star are in a tight orbit around their common center of
mass. If there is a =93slow-motion effect,=94 the apparent orbital periods
of binary stars should tend to increase with increasing distance from
Earth. If the speed of light has been decreasing, the Hubble Space
Telescope may eventually find that binary stars at great distances
have very long orbital periods, showing that they are in slow motion.
With both the big bang and stretching explanations, it is difficult to
imagine time beginning, the sudden presence of matter and energy in a
small universe, a brief period when laws of physics did not operate,
and space expanding. The big bang theory says that space expanded for
a brief fraction of a second from a mathematical point=97trillions of
billions of times faster than the speed of light today. The stretching
theory says that a much smaller universe than we have today was
rapidly stretched out, along with the matter and light in that space.
Although no scientific explanation can be given for either form of
expansion, we can see which explanation fits all the observable
evidence.
We also can appreciate why at least eleven Bible passages, involving
five different writers, mention the =93stretched out heavens.=94 Another
verse, Psalm 19:1, takes on a new depth of meaning: =93The heavens are
telling of the glory of God, and their expanse is declaring the work
of His hands.=94
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