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Astronomy And Cosmology #1
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The Urantia Book
tells us that we are in the (middle of the) expanding phase of the space
respiration cycle. The cycle length is given as 2 billion years. Two billion years was also
the age of the universe originally following from Hubble's constant. This constant was
found to be too small and erroneous. Even today there isn't any general agreement on
the value of Hubble's constant.
But again, if one believes what the book is saying, space is expanding and with it all
space, also that within atoms. This will change the fine structure constant and the
number 860 (two * pi * 137), which determines the wavelength of quanta (light) emitted by
atoms. Therefore, when we observe light that has been on its way billions of years, we will see the wavelength corresponding to the expansion/contraction phase of the emitting
atoms. This might be the cause of why some scientist have reported "quantified redshift"
values; at least this is my guess.
"Dirac (1937, 1938), Teller (1948), Jordan (1955, 1959), Gamow (1967), and others
have proposed that the fine-structure ´constant´ alpha(e) might be a slowly varying
scalar field, perhaps governed by a cosmological equation."; from the book "Gravitation".
The following are some references to Edwin Hubble's work and The Urantia Papers:
A comparison between some similarities in the texts of The Urantia Papers (indited in 1934) and Edwin Hubble´s book "The Realm of the Nebulae", Yale university Press 1936, is given. (Please
compare texts with the same paragraph numbers.) I don´t pretend that this comparison is complete. There might be further similarities.
Also the supernovae in distant galaxies are today important distance indicators.
When a translation is made, many of these obvious similarities in the words used are lost,
also because quantities like "mile" are converted to "km". In any case there are many
similarities in E. Hubble´s writings and The Urantia Papers:
The Urantia Papers:
- Spectral lines are displaced from the normal towards the violet by an approaching star;
likewise these lines are displaced towards the red by a receding star. Many influences
interpose to make it appear that the recessional velocity of the external universes
increases at the rate of more than one hundred miles a second for every million
light-years increase in distance. (p.134,
12:4.14)
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But this apparent speed of recession is not real; it results from numerous factors of
error embracing angles of observation and other time-space distortions. (p134,
12:4.14) ...That is,
these myriads of nebulae and their accompanying suns and spheres are at the present
time revolving clockwise about the central creation.
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You fail to recognize the present outward and uniform expansion of the physical
creations of all pervaded space. Your own local creation (Nebadon) participates in this
movement of universal outward expansion. The entire seven superuniverses participate
in the two-billion-year cycles of space respiration along with the outer regions of the
master universe. (p. 134,
12:4.12)
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In the not-distant future, new telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of Urantian
astronomers no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer
space. At the same time these more powerful telescopes will disclose that many island
universes formerly believed to be in outer space are really a part of the galactic system
of Orvonton. (p. 130,
12:2.3)
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The gravity-electric changes give origin to vast quantities of tiny particles devoid of
electric potential, and such particles readily escape from the
solar
interior, thus bringing
about the collapse of a gigantic sun within a few days. It was such an emigration of these
"runaway particles" that occasioned the collapse of the giant nova of the
Andromeda nebula
about fifty years ago. This vast stellar body collapsed in forty minutes of Urantia
time (p.464,
41:8.3). (my comment: the year 1885 is about fifty years ago, from 1934, see
Hubble! The supernova 1987A produced radiation of small uncharged particles,
neutrinos, observed for the first time from a nova in the year 1987)
Then compare to book "The Realm of the Nebulae" by Edwin Hubble, printed 1936:
- Observations show that details in nebular spectra are displaced toward the red from
their normal positions,... (p.121) . Velocities, on the average, increased at the rate of
roughly 100 miles/sec., per million light-years of distance, over the observed range of
about 6.5 million light years. (p. 115)
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The term "apparent velocity" may be used in carefully considered statements, and the
adjective always implied where it is omitted in general usage (p. 123). This explanation
interprets red-shift as Doppler effects, that is to say, as velocity-shifts, indicating actual
motion of recession. It may be stated with some confidence that red-shifts are
velocity-shifts or else they represent some hitherto unrecognized principle in physics. (p.
122)
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The interpretation as velocity-shifts is generally adopted by theoretical investigators,
and the velocity-distance relation is considered as the observational basis for theories of
an expanding universe. Such theories are widely current.
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Because the telescopic resources are not yet exhausted, judgement may be
suspended until it is known from observations weather or not red-shifts do actually
represent motion. (p. 122)
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The nova of 1885 in M31
(Andromeda)
was of a different order, Its luminosity at
maximum was a considerable fraction of the total luminosity of the spiral, and in this
respect it resembled the photographic novae detected in other, fainter nebulae. ...
Which, if either of the two groups, dwarfs and gigants, was comparable with galactic
novae. (p. 87)
Dr. Stefan H. Tallqvist
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