Suggested by: RLC
Over the past several years the science of astronomy has made great leaps in understanding our universe (physical reality) relative to what is happening in what we call space. Of course the further astronomers probe in space the further they are looking into the past. They now have ways of measuring the speed stars are moving relative to our Solar System and many other facts that are of interest to astronomers. My interest lies in what they have concluded from scientific data they have collected over the past several years.
Most of us probably think of space as being a void that can be occupied and when not occupied it is a nothingness. I know I did less than a year ago. That concept of space has been proven incorrect based on what astronomers have concluded from the scientific data they have collected because of one primary observed fact.
If you cut a perfect rubber band and pull on each end, it will stretch uniformly throughout its length. If you now place the rubber band on a flat surface, stretch it only slightly to make it straight, and then place marks on it that are an equal distance apart, you can observe what happens in any single direction in space as you stretch the rubber band. Assume each mark represents a similar area in space. We will stretch the rubber band by fixing one end and pulling on the other. We will assume that we stretch the rubber band in a way that the end being pulled moves at a constant speed during the period we stretch it. Observe that the mark closest to the fixed end moves at a particular speed, the second mark moves twice as fast relative to the fixed end, the third mark moves three times as fast relative to the fixed end, and etc. This is exactly the way objects that have not had other forces acting on them since the beginning move in space relative to each other. Stars become one of the easiest objects with which to make this observation. If we draw a line through our solar system back to the point where it appears everything began, the star closest to our solar system on that line is moving away at a particular speed, and we will call its distance one unit. Any other star on the line will be moving away at a speed that is equal to the number of units it is away from us, assuming it has not had another force act on it. If it is two units away, then it will be moving away twice as fast as the star closest to us. Of course in space, this stretching is three dimensional instead of one or two.
I remember hearing the term "fabric of space" from somewhere in the past; but I never really thought of space as a fabric. Astronomers have observed, though, that space acts exactly like a three dimensional fabric that stretches or expands at a particular rate. It is not a nothingness. It is something in which energy and matter move according to the laws governing each plus the expansion of the something we call space. The way all matter is moving and has moved in the observable past indicates a point in the far distant past when this physical reality came into existence similar to a big bang. If this big bang had occurred in a nothingness, then all objects would be moving away from each other at a constant rate relative to the direction they began their travel. The distance between objects would tend to remain at the same angle as they were shortly after they began their journey. Neither would we see the rate of speed between two or more objects on a straight line as being greater the further away they were from each other..
Therefore, our universe did not come from nothing to become something. Rather it appears to have been created in the far distance past from something that existed at that time. It now continues to exist in that something and that something is growing larger and larger.
As our knowledge expands of the physical reality, it is becoming more and more difficult to be an atheist and truly be a seeker after truth..
Compare the above facts with many of the statements made in the Bible about GOD and Christ.
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