Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky <hermeneutics AT kulikovskyonline.net>]

On 08:16 PM 17/08/2002 -0400, Mike Sangrey wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 17:18, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky wrote:
> <snip>
> > This is not correct. There is no reason why you can't have time without 
> light.
> > I don't think you have understood Einstein - most people including many
> > physicists don't!
>
> I won't carry this discussion any further, but I'd rather the idea not
> get dismissed with a simple "wave of the hand."
>
> Perhaps I should have used the term `energy' instead of `light'.

Ok. That makes better sense.

>   With
> only Mass and no Energy, you can't talk about the space-time continuum.
> If you can't use space-time language (that is, you can't convey `tense'
> using any linguistic feature), how do you describe the creation of
> Mass?  Well, you simply state it--just like Gen. 1:1 does.  However, as
> soon as you have Energy AND Mass in place, you can start using
> space-time continuum language.  You can start saying things like "that
> which just happened was day one."  You can't talk about a day zero thing
> since the whole concept of `day' doesn't make any sense until you have
> both Energy AND Mass in place.
>
> I might add that the "evening and morning" language, used by the author
> to stress a rather short time, can fit just fine when one assumes an
> earth centric, gravitationally influenced, relativistic time.  You've
> got a really big ball of water; there would have to be gravitational
> effects on time going on as the different pieces of the universe come
> into existence through those first 6 days.  It's really not that
> difficult to postulate large variances in time between different places
> of the universe as a result of the event horizon (or horizons)
> shrinking.  In short, the language of Gen. 1 is not scientifically
> weird.

Funny you should mention this since physicist Russell Humphreys has 
proposed a cosmology exactly like this!


cheers,
Andrew
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