Is the Earth entering its mid-life crisis?
I just read the other day, 7/6/13,“According to leading scientist Jack O’Malley-James, life on Earth will perish in more than a billion years when a warming sun boils oceans and forces out CO2, damning plants and subsequently animals. Most life will have died by the planet reaches 70s (or 6.5 billion-years-old), he says, with any microorganisms confined to pools of residual water. “The far-future Earth will be very hostile to life,” Mr O’Malley-James said. “It will be restricted to pockets of liquid water, perhaps at cooler higher altitudes or in caves.”
What do you think scientist base such a belief on? I’ll tell you, it is faith in their theories that give them the confidence, and who made the theories? Other scientists that is who, so in effect they are basing their faith on men, well some men anyway. In this case I reckon that it is on Hubble and Einstein.
Hubble is the one who comes up the Red Shift Theory that explained the reason, in his opinion, that some stars seem redder than others. Einstein is the one who proclaimed that the speed of light is content never changing in a vacuum. Now Hubble used the speed of light to calculate the size of the universe giving that it all came into existence at once by being blown apart with the Big bang. That’s right everything blew apart from nothing, or blew in from nothing, or blew away from nothing, in any case in one instant there was nothing and in the next everything, and everything was running away from everything else giving the expanding universe. The stare, posited Hubble, with more red in their light were accelerating away from us faster than the stars with less red it the light that is collected by our telescopes. He based his theory on the belief that light would behave in the same manner as sound on what is called the Doppler effect.
Now I am not saying that there is no such thing as a 'Red Shift' in light when it is traveling away from an observe's, after all this is how Doppler radar, as it bounces off of an object when it come back to its source, the radar's antenna, the radio frequency of the signal has either increased or decreased depending upon whether or the object it bounced off of was going away or coming closer. The frequency will increase, or shift towards the blue, if coming, and decrease, shift towards the red, of going away from you.
"Hubble's law is the name for the theory in physical cosmology (proven by observation) that: all objects observed in deep space (intergalactic space) are found to have a Doppler shift observable relative velocity to Earth, and to each other; and that this Doppler-shift-measured velocity, of various galaxies receding from the Earth, is proportional to their distance from the Earth and all other interstellar bodies. In effect, the space-time volume of the observable universe is expanding and Hubble's law is the direct physical observation of this process. The motion of astronomical objects due solely to this expansion is known as the Hubble flow." Wikipedia
This is where no experiment can be devised to test the theory, there exists other explanations that can explain why we observe a red shift in the lights coming from the stars other than it is a result of them going away from us. If you heard a train whistle from a train moving towards you for the first time in your life, you might think that's how they always sound. So, when astronomers look at stars' spectrums, how do they know if it's really red (or blue) shifted? To To recognize such a shift, wouldn't one have to know what the baseline spectrum looks like? But, how could one know that? It is assumed that the light started on its journey at a given frequency, and then because the star is moving away its light shifted to the red, i.e., the light wave got longer. This assumption cannot be tested.
This is where no experiment can be devised to test the theory, there exists other explanations that can explain why we observe a red shift in the lights coming from the stars other than it is a result of them going away from us. If you heard a train whistle from a train moving towards you for the first time in your life, you might think that's how they always sound. So, when astronomers look at stars' spectrums, how do they know if it's really red (or blue) shifted? To To recognize such a shift, wouldn't one have to know what the baseline spectrum looks like? But, how could one know that? It is assumed that the light started on its journey at a given frequency, and then because the star is moving away its light shifted to the red, i.e., the light wave got longer. This assumption cannot be tested.
It is this reliance upon Hubble's Law that the scientist have determined the age and size of the universe. By measurements of the cosmic background radiation (that is what, among other things, all those large radio telescope that look like large satellite antennas do) give the cooling time of the universe since the Big Bang, and measurements of the expansion rate of the universe can be used to calculate its approximate age by extrapolating backwards in time. Now to come to the age they have concluded, 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years, they have to assume, e.g., take on faith, that the Big Bang actually happened, and there is such a thing as a Doppler effect in light coming from the stars caused by their receding from us.
So how can Jack O’Malley-James claims that the earth has reached middle age? Well he says that the Earth is 4.54 billion-years-old, well that too is assumed as there are no dating techniques in existence that can date the earth with any precision. What they do is look around the universe, remember in their world when you look into space you look back in time as well, if the light took a million light years to get here, determined by the Red Shift of its light, then they are looking a million years into the past. It takes the light from the sun about 8 minuted to get to earth, so whenever you look at the sun you are looking 8 minuted into the past.
Well they look out and see stares in different conditions, and gave them names like Red Giants, white dwarf, neutron star, Brown Dwarf, and Nova. Now another assumption is made and again based upon the Red Shift theory, and that these are different stages that a star goes through from birth to death.
It is with this assumption that Mr O’Malley-James, et al., predicts the death of earth by projecting onto the sun the concept of a star that must follow the same pattern as they have stitched together by observing stars in different parts of the universe, assigning age to the stars using the Red Shift.
I also believe that the universe sprang into existence in an instance when God said, "let there be light". But unlike O’Malley-James I believe that the earth is much nearer its end, and it will be done away with and replace with a New Earth and a New Jerluslaham. Both of our convictions are based upon faith his no less than mine.
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