Newton versus Biblical Physics

Isaac Newton as a young manNewton's book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy had enormous influence. The first chapter is titled Definitions. "The quantity of matter is the measure of the same." "The quantity of motion is the measure of the same." Newton was not referring to the common way of measuring things. "I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those qualities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common." Common folk measured things relatively, by comparing real objects to other sensible objects, such as crowing roosters to the dawn.

 Newton's most innovative definition was: "Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external." His version of time is unaffected by material things, relative to nothing but itself. It exists in the symbolical world of mathematics. His absolute space is also unrelated to physical things and refers to geometrical spaces. He admitted that matter's external appearances may change, however, "the places of equal solids are always equal." Newton's concept of invariant time was grounded upon the idea that the properties of matter are not emergent, that matter is not always changing itself. This assumption is the basic presumption used by his laws of motion.

Three hundred years later, Newton's laws of motion are found in all physics books. His linear
time is now the prejudice of common folk. It is now the independent variable in most mathematical equations. The best clocks in Newton's day used pendulums. Today scientists use atomic clocks for calibrating most units such as length, velocity, gravity and mathematical laws. Everyone apparently has faith that atomic clocks are perpetual motion machines, even though no ancient galaxy shines with perpetual motion atoms.

Biblical physics is based on the simple words of the Bible. Its foundational principle is that the creation is in bondage to phthora, fundamental change. It uses no complex ways of measuring or difficult mathematics. We verify biblical physics, not with symbolical spaces and absolute time, but with real, sensible objects. The universe is so vast, and the voids between galaxy clusters are so opaque, that we see the history of the universe optically, all the way back to the creation age. We see cosmic history like millions of separate frames in a movie film; each frame showing how galaxies looked at some ancient era.

hubble deep field north

The above image is a few frames in the visible history of the cosmos, all of which are from the Hubble Deep North. As a jpeg, these objects are not as sharp as they appear with other video resolutions.

The first frame is a galaxy chain, #215 in the Hubble Deep North. Notice that that it looks like three equally spaced beads on a necklace. If objects really are equally spaced and they are far away, they will always have equal angular separations, no matter from which direction we view them. The atoms in these galaxies emitted light that was approximately twice the wavelength of local atoms.

The next is #909.  Notice that the central clump of stars has two beaded appendages above and below it. The atoms in this ancient galaxy emitted light that was 3.4 times the wavelength of modern atoms.

The next is #593 is two primordial galaxies. The lower one a blue clump of stars on each end. The upper one has a string of star beads that seem to overlap the lower galaxy. Notice again the equal spacing, like links on a chain. These ancient atoms emitted light with a wavelength that was 2.7 times the wavelength of local atoms.

The next is #472. Here we see that equally spaced beads of stars have bent around the nucleus. The light from this early spiral galaxy has 2.1 times the wavelength of similar local atoms.

In the last frame, #225, we see a galaxy with a more developed, yet still beaded appendage. The beads of star clusters have rotated around almost one full turn around the nucleus. This galaxy shines at 1.3 times the wavelength of similar local atoms.

We see the history of the universe frame by frame, billions of frames. We see sensible things, real objects. All primordial galaxies clocked light frequencies that were minuscule ratios of those emitted by modern atoms. No ancient orbits or atomic clocks follow Newton's absolute time, gravity or clock-like orbits. How can we know that the orbits are not clock-like? We see at many ranges how the the stars accelerate outward as billions of galaxies grew into huge growth spirals. At many ranges, we observe that atomic clocks accelerate along with accelerating orbits - as galaxies grew. Galaxies cannot grow from tiny, naked, objects packed densely with stars into huge growth spirals unless the properties of matter are always changing.

What we see fits the Hebrew words describing how God continually spreads out the heavens. Carefully examine the raqiya, the pounded out spreading out heavens. It is the one place where knowledge of God's great glory is available to all. He created trillions of galaxies that visibly show cosmic history. We see how the galaxies formed, just like the Hebrew verbs in the Bible declare about how God spreads out the heavens.

Biblical physics allows one to accept what is visible as true, to regard visible cosmic history as rational. We see with sight that every bit of matter is following biblical physics. We see how the galaxies grew - in violation of the scientific laws. Look at the heavens and marvel at the wisdom of a Creator who even defeats the wisdom of this world (science) for His great glory. How utterly and completely the Bible vanquishes Western science, the structured way of reasoning built on a single idea from a pagan Greek. Look at the heavens see His glory.

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