RE: [asa] YEC cosmology question: astro shows

Parallax measurements are good to only about 6 or 7 hundred light years, I
think. [Oddly, stellar aberration was discovered in stars before parallax
was.]

There are many tools astronomers use to determine distance including binary
star systems, RR Lyrae stars, Cepheid variables, light echos from supernova
and flashing stars (eg V838 Mon), etc. There is a great deal of confluence
in this field of measurement with many lines of evidence supporting the
distances determined for all but the more distant objects.

David (May 22) referenced Gerald Schroeder's site which claims time way out
there runs slower so we would see things older than normal. He used a
dilation rate several hundred thousand times normal and claims this does
exist. However, the actual time dilation for the earliest observable
objects with a redshift of z=4 (z+1=5, which is 12 billion lyrs. distance)
is only 5 to 1. The first light of Big Bang has a dilation of only about
1,090x. Ignoring extreme time dilation around event horizons of black
holes, I can't understand how this argument could hold-up.

Also, the creation of photons that makes all things appear as old is clear
evidence that we were all made from goo since it is obvious a reversion to
this earlier state is upon us. Not only would the number of photons be
beyond any imagination, but their direction would be critical to this
deception, too.

George Cooper

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Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [asa] YEC cosmology question: astro shows

A bit closer to home, current technology allows parallelax
measurements to reach beyond 6000 light years. I.e., geometry shows
that the Milky Way is appreciably larger than 6K light years.
Creation of the light on its way from the distant objects is the only
young-earth scenario I know of that is actually compatible with the
scientific data. Objections to such a model must be philosophical
rather than scientific.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
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