The distance of sun from earth is 152138000 KM or 9137700 miles. Sun diameter is 844400 miles  and Sun's surface grevity is almost 28 times that of earth. Speed of light is 186000 miles per second. I am recording this data to prove that  there is a very supreme power who has created not only this universe but also several other glaxies. My question to athiest is "Can all these creations came into existance automatically or by the supreme power (Who is God)?" I will be grateful for replies from my valued participants.
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Atheists do not believe in the existence of God; it would be more appropriate to say that they believe that everything has an observable scientific rationale. What is scientific, and what not, is another question altogether. As noted by Stephen Hawking in "A Brief history of time", the more one learns about the universe, the more one is compelled to believe in the existence of God.\n\nThe theory of there being an unparallelled supreme being in control of the universe, can also be considered as scientific a theory as any other, albeit not that easily observable. But for that matter, even accepted(?) scientific principles relating to astrological phenomenon cannot be easily observed.\n\nFrom the statistics given by you, it is obvious that earth is in a very precarious position, one mile out of orbit and it would go crashing into the sun. The universe is not infinite; only the theory of existence of God can reconcile the question of why this is so, and what is beyond?\n\nAnother theory why atheists do not believe in God could be that they are afraid of accepting that their destinies are pre-written (something that is a part of most religions. The end result, however, is that the war between science and religion will continue until the day when either one of them comprehensively wins, or they realise that all this time they have been fighting the same battle, treading the same path, the path of truth and knowledge.
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Same god. different perspective. we haven't seen even our solar system from all sides yet. The god I believe created universe can not be understood completly ever.
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It is Olbers' Paradox.\n\nWhy isn't the night sky as uniformly bright as the surface of the Sun?  If the Universe has infinitely many stars, then it should be.  After all, if you move the Sun twice as far away from us, we will intercept one quarter as many photons, but the Sun will subtend one quarter of the angular area.  So the areal intensity remains constant.  With infinitely many stars, every angular element of the sky should have a star, and the entire heavens should be as bright as the sun.  We should have the impression that we live in the center of a hollow black body whose temperature is about 6000 degrees Celsius.  This is Olbers' paradox.  It can be traced as far back as Kepler in 1610, and was rediscussed by Halley and Cheseaux in the eighteen century; but it was not popularized as a paradox until Olbers took up the issue in the nineteenth century.
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Sadly, this e-mail is fake, and gives a bad name to christianity everywhere.\n\nFirstly, a computer program does not have access to history, only to the pre-programmed patterns which scientists feed it. If they were to measure BACKWARDS in time, there would be no way for a computer program to know that the sun stopped a day. \n\nSecondly, we would not need to know the future position of the sun, moon, or planets for satellites, because satellites orbit high in the Earths atmosphere and do not hurtle through deep space.\n\nThirdly, individual space crafts have their own paths researched and planned before launch, not based off a database compiled by other scientists. There is far too many variables in the universe to plan ahead more than a few months, much less over 100 years to 1000 years.\n\nFurthermore, there would be no reason to look at the positions in history, though I have already shown that a computer program could not reflect any unusual circumstances.\n\nFinally, the sun doesn't move. This program was supposedly tracking the position of the sun, but earth rotates the sun, not the other way around. Obviously the author was more concerned with making gullible people believe his version of religion than sticking to science.\n\nAlthough this is shameful to the religion, it neither proves nor disproves it.
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Seven of God's days. He dwells in eternity where it is timeless. Remember that the sun, moon and stars were not created until the fourth day. So what was the source of light on day one? What was the division of light and darkness? Remember the Tabernacle in the wilderness? This was not a new design, it was a model of heaven. God created the earth as modeled in heaven with a division of light and darkness. This may be areas in the eternal relm where God dwells and possible where Satan dwells. According to Revelation, this heaven will pass away and a new heaven and new earth will be created with NO night. So what happens to the dark eternity? It becomes what is called "outer darkness".\nBeing here on earth, it is hard to interpret the concept of eternity. Einstein got close when he proved that time is a physical property.\nThis was a great question. Thanks!
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Well, if there are billions of stars in an average galaxies, and there are countless galaxies in the universe, even if there is an odd of 1 to trillion, then the probability of having life forms in other galaxy systems appears to be good. \nHowever, life-forms as we know on earth may not be duplicated elsewhere.  Ours is carbon-based.  It is not improbable for other forms of life to exist.  \nBecause of limitations to speed of light, and hence to travelling speed, we, earthlings, may never be able to encounter alien life, as some galaxies are hundreds of millions of lightyears (a lightyear is the distance travel by light in 1 year) away, that is it takes light hundreds of millions years to reach us from that distant galaxy.\nSo even if the intelligent life-form on the outskirts of our known universe were to evolved a million years before us, and if such intelligent life-forms were to be able to travel at the speed of light, they cannot reach us in another hundreds of million years.\nBy then, our enlarged sun would have scorched our earth into an uninhabitable region, meaning all lives on earth would be wiped out.
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If the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away and it's the only galaxy on Earth to be seen by the naked eye, it leaves us to wonder how far it really is.\n\nPersonally, I googled it. I couldn't find a thing relating to the blank nothingness further than the universe.\nI only looked a little bit, but there are very few educational guesses on the Internet.\n\nMaybe you should try. Googling that is. Maybe it's you who'll find the right words to search it in.  \nThe words stumped me so the was probably my problem.\n\nGood luck on finding the answer!\n-Marissa
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By "is outer space infinite?" I assume you mean "is the universe infinite?" The answer to this question is NO. The universe and outer space is NOT infinite.\n\nOur current understanding on the origin of the universe tells us that the universe was created in a Big Bang, and that the universe has been expanding ever since (for about 15 billion years). Since light travels 186,000 miles per second, a light-year is about 6 trillion miles or 6 x 10^12.  So 15 billion light years is about 9 x 10^22 miles. This makes the universe very large indeed, but still NOT inifinite.\n\nBTW, this is just the size of our universe. There maybe other universes as other people have indicated, but there is no point talking about them, because we don't know for sure they exist but we are VERY sure that our universe exists.
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Yes, it is true that there are stars and galaxies whose light has not yet reached Earth. This is because light travels at a finite speed (about 3.00E8 km/s). It does not lose energy to space either... and the only thing in space that disrupts light's path by any real amount is gravity.\n\nWhen we look into the sky at night we are seeing the past. When we look at our Sun we are looking 8 minutes into the past (light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us)... The nearest stars to our Solar System are hundreds, even thousands of light-years away (a light-year is the measure of the distance that light travels in a year)... So, when you look at the stars in the sky, you are seeing them as they were 100's, 1000', if not millions or billions of years ago. Scientists, using our most advanced telescopes have looked as far back as when our Universe was only a baby (about 450 million years old). As the Universe is about 15-20 billion years old right now thats very far back in time.\n\nTo answer your question about faster-than-light travel. As we know physics today, that is impossible. Einstein and many other relativistic theortists have shown time and time again that faster-than-light travel has a high probablity of impossibility. Also, light speed and (if possible) faster than light speed travel would affect the traveler's perception of time relative to the inertial frame.\n\nThis is a basic theory in relativity and I really don't want to get into that.
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The religious answer would be that God created the sun and Adam discovered it. It certainly was not discovered by Galileo, that is just silly.\n\nThe scientific answer would be that it has been known since prehistoric times and was not discovered by any one person.
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It takes anywear from 8-9 min! The reason being that the earth does not revolve around the sun in a perfect circle. This answer only counts if I interpreted your question correctly.If not the speed of light itself does not travel.
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You are only supposing. Let's get real. The reality is that God in His wisdom has created the universe. He created human beings in whom He has delight. As Master architect He knew the most conducive planet to keep this set of creation called human beings or Man. Science also tells us that the only habitable planet is the Earth. Planets closer to the sun are too hot. Planet beyond the earth farther away from the sun are too cold. No beings sharing the same nature as Man live in the universe apart from the earth. And know this that God has only ONE begotten Son. Other children God has are here on earth. They are the adopted children through faith in Jesus, the only begotten Son. They share the same nature with Jesus through conversion, rather than being cloned. They are the true Christians, You can call them the followers of Christ or the little christs.
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From the physics point of view, our universe thus far is approximately 15 billion light years and expanding every second. Light year is the distance that light with the speed of nearly 300,000 Km/s travels in one year. This distance equals 9, 500, 000, 000, 000 Km (that light travels each year). Now, imagine how big our universe is!!\n\nAbout the second part, The space-time (space and time are inseparable) make our universe. They are both dynamic and the  fact that universe expands means both the space and the time expand. Now, in what do the space and time and our universe expand? This fact is not like other daily facts in our life, it is not possible to assign a place for space-time so that our universe expand in it. We cannot say there is something outside our universe because it is meaningless. These concepts are complex and require in-depth studies and deliberating.\n\nI hope these would be a little helpful...
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12 hours light distance means: the distance light travels in it for 12 hours.\n\nKnowing that the speed of light is in vacuum 299,792,458 metres per second or 1,079,252,848.8  kilometres per hour, or 186,282 39937/100584 miles per second, or 670,616,629 537/1397 miles per hour. The speed of light through a transparent medium (that is, not in vacuum) is slightly less; the ratio of c to this speed is called the refractive index of the medium.\n\nIf you multiply 1,079,252,848.8  kilometres per hour by 12, you get 1,295,103,418.56 km, a very long distance. If you want to use multiple mirrors to get the "infinite-effect" to "create" this immense distance you need to get a reflection of the sun (with a concave mirror) exactly between the two facing mirrors. Even if you make this happen, remember that the mirror has no memory: when the reflected object is removed from before the mirror, the reflection stops also.\n\nWhy don't you just use regular solar cells that turn solar heat/light into electricity and use a lightbulb after dark?
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Very interesting theory. To get people to grasp the concept of the size of one universe is difficult, (Douglas Adams touched on this in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, "Amazingly big multiplied by stupendously large....... etc") , so to ask people to think in terms of multiverse is difficult enough, (I have no major problems with the concept.)........., then to throw in the concept of one god per universe in a multiverse, ...phew...! I prefer to think of one creator of everything, simplistic I know, but easy for me to grasp.
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Who gave you this assignment? Sounds like he/she has an agenda. Be careful, usually teachers that ask such a question do not give good grades if you do not agree with their world view.\n\nGod does not exist because we believe in Him. The fact that there is a God can be seen in the incredible mechanisms and order that is around us. Such things cannot come into being out of chaos. DNA itself is a complex, organic computer code. But even DNA cannot explain the existence of a human soul that has emotions with the ability to create or reason.\n\nSo what if God did not exist? Then there would be no physical dimension of time or space. Where would the building blocks of existence come from? Something cannot come out of nothing without intervention to make it happen. If there was a Big Bang, where did the energy and physics come from to make it occur? There would be no universe, no stars, no existence what so ever. Gravity and laws of motion cannot exist in the eternal, they are physical properties. Time would not exist, because it too is physical. Science would not exist because it is tied to the physical. Human beings would not exist because without order and design, the elements to make one real would not be present. For evolution to even start, you would need two things, elements and lots and lots of time. Both would not exist because they are tied to the limitations of physical 3 dimensional time and space.
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A number of problems.\nMars and Earth rotate.. You couldn't line them up. However, as this is a theoretical question...\nSay it took two minutes for the light to travel from Earth to mars... \nTherefore if you had 20 mirrors you'd be looking at a 40 minute lag in what you see.\nTheoretically you'd be able to see a clock reflected so many times that it would be 40 minutes slower than it actually was but you'd need some damn good mirrors and damn good optical devices.\nHowever you could only see the light you trapped.. The light from the dinasaurs went away a long time ago.\nIn order to see that you'd have to get near to the edge of our known universe in an instant.. Not so easy.\nBy trying the experiment with the mirrors you'd be able actually to prove the speed of light.\nIt would be a pretty buzzy experiment to do though...