the relevance of time

  With all the talk about the new pictures from space provided by the Webb telescope I have been thinking about that. I haven't studied astrophysics and hold no degrees in anything but apparently there are plenty on Facebook. It's especially true of those on the New York Time posts, along with animal behavioral specialists, economics professors, ethicists and any number of specialties. I guess I should be all excited, thrilled, that President Biden unlocked the universe for us all. Truth is, I'm not all that excited about it. Much of what the "experts" talk about is just theory and I take it that way, interesting to think about. As far as I can tell the only difference between their theories and mine are they can express theirs in complex mathematical formulas. Certainly, looks impressive enough. When it comes to time and space Einstein is still the king. Still, when it comes right down to it his special theory of relativity has yet to be proven. All the evidence points to him being correct, but it hasn't been proven. I'd take his word over my own though. But, I have my own theory about such things too. 

 I find myself asking this question; what is the relevance of time? That is to say, what is time relative too? Einsteins famous equation E=MC2 doesn't address that. That equation is basically saying that energy and mass are equal. That's in its' simplest understanding anyway. That equation is the famous special relativity one. Interesting that it came first, it wasn't until years later Einstein defines what he calls space/time with his general theory of relativity. He never did reconcile one with the other and no one else has either. 

 Now the scientists are saying that we are seeing images that are 13 billion light years old. You have to admit that is a number you and I can't really comprehend. Astrophysics deals with really large numbers. Space is infinite. The number of stars in the sky, infinite. Galaxies, infinite. If it took that light 13 billion years to get here how long was it travelling to get where it was 13 billion light years ago? Now that's something to think about. Beyond human comprehension in my opinion, even Einstein was puzzled. 

 And what of those mysterious black holes? We are told by Einstein and almost all of science agree, that there is nothing faster than the speed of light. That's where space/time comes into the equation. Time moves faster the father away from the center of the earth you get and a little slower towards the center. It's true, relatively speaking. Our GPS satellites compensate for this in microseconds. But that time is relative to the surface of the earth. I know, it can bog your mind down thinking about that stuff. But we are told that the gravity in a black hole is so strong that nothing can escape it, not even light! That's why they are black. It's a theory anyway. 

 But what if that black hole is simply that, a hole. Then light and everything else would just pass through it. In engineering we would call that an orifice. An orifice will create a pressure drop on the exiting side of that orifice. Yup, a partial vacuum. Pressure and temperature drop dramatically. Eventually they stabilize on the other side. Thing is we can't look through those black holes to see what is on the other side. So, that means, at best, we can only see half the picture. Nothing escapes a black hole. And that leaves me with a question. Can we really expect to understand what we can't see? And that, that is where God and creation enters into the whole thing. 

 So, for me I'm saying it is all very fascinating, interesting and certainly may prove to be of some benefit to man. I don't believe it is anything we will ever understand, not on this earth anyway. Perhaps in whatever afterlife there is, whatever form your energy assumes after death will enable that ability. The Bible tells us that the love of God surpasses all understanding. I believe that is exactly what it is talking about. Time is relevant to what? In the infinite, time has no relevance, other than as a marker, a way to look back, it is not a method to look ahead. Nothing escapes a black hole but where does it go? No one can answer that. Time is always in the past. Theory holds that time will continue forever. Forever as related to what? Relative to what? 

 Remember when you were a kid or had kids of your own? Remember when you would say, why. Remember your kids asking you why? You shouldn't do this, or you should do that, why? Buy why? Frustrating wasn't it. All the math, all the observation, all the theories and postulations and still no answer why. Tina Turner asked, what's love got to do with it. I'm asking what's time got to do with it? Look back as far as you like you won't see tomorrow. If you did see tomorrow how long did it take to get here? Then it isn't really tomorrow, is it? Is that what is on the other side of those black holes? I don't think we will ever know that answer.