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Author Topic:   Doesn't the distance of stars disprove the young earth theory?
Percy
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Message 73 of 138 (573547)
08-11-2010 8:45 PM
Reply to: Message 71 by Nuimshaan
08-11-2010 8:16 PM


Making sure I understand you correctly, are you saying that Einsteinian relativity is incorrect and that clocks moving relative to one another and/or experiencing different accelerations measure identical amounts of time? And that this means that the light from stars further away than it takes light to travel in 6000 years still arrives here in less than 6000 years?
--Percy

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Message 91 of 138 (573980)
08-13-2010 11:39 AM
Reply to: Message 90 by Taq
08-13-2010 11:20 AM


Re: Hubble
Taq writes:
This is where we run into a problem of definition. The Universe is defined by what we can observe, and the observable universe is 13.5 billion years old by the travel of light. Could our observable universe be part of a larger spacetime that is much older? Many theoretical physicists believe so, some don't. It's a mixed bag.
This doesn't sound right to me if you're thinking there's a relationship between the age of our universe and its size, observable or not.
--Percy

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Message 100 of 138 (574194)
08-14-2010 3:07 PM
Reply to: Message 99 by driewerf
08-14-2010 12:18 PM


driewerf writes:
Even very short living stars live easely a few billions of years.
Stars with a mass of more than twice our sun live less than a billion years. The largest stars live less than 10 million (that's million with an "m") years.
Apothecus's example isn't affected by the actual lifetimes of stars. It was an explanation of how distance affects how long it takes light to reach us. The object emitting the light isn't a pertinent detail of the explanation.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 105 of 138 (575087)
08-18-2010 8:49 PM
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08-18-2010 8:35 PM


Withdrawn.
Edited by Percy, : Crash and Hooah had pretty good responses, removing mine now.

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Message 137 of 138 (622461)
07-03-2011 10:38 AM
Reply to: Message 135 by whiteboywushu
07-03-2011 10:07 AM


Re: Evolution and Creation are both wrong!
Hi whiteboywushu, welcome to EvC.
Can you tie your comments into the topic of this thread? If not then it might be better to find another thread, or perhaps propose a new thread over at Proposed New Topics.
--Percy

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