[Advanced Creation Science]

Einstein’s theories have been held in such high esteem that any deviation from them is almost heresy in the realm of physics. Though Einstein himself was an open minded individual, and he would be appalled to think his ideas could never be questioned, there is almost a reverence of him such that skepticism of his venerated thoeries should remain private.

Unlike, Darwin, Einstein is deserving of reverence, as is the creationist Maxwell, the creationist Faraday, and the creationist Newton (these three are known as “Einstein’s Heroes”).

For YEC to succeed, however, it may be necessary that our current conception of the laws of physics, the very conceptions formed by Einstein and his three creationist heroes, may have to be re-written. Ah the irony of ironies, for YEC theory to succeed, the works of the greatest creationist physicist, Maxwell, will have to be re-written, as well as the formulas of relativity which Einstein deduced from Maxwell’s equations [I gave a glimpse of the sort of derivations demonstrating the connection of Maxwell’s celebrated equations of electrodynamics and Einstein’s relativity here: Lorentz Covariance and the Creationist Maxwell’s Equations]

Work on the issue is being done in secular quarters far removed from ID and creationist circles (and if I may say, that is a good thing). Joao Maguiejo holds the professorship once held by nobel laureates like Abdul Salam. He is no one to be dismissed. It was because of profound problems with the Big Bang (and there are still many) that he was partly inspired to explore the heresy of a Variable Speed of Light (VSL).

If the speed of light is variable, Einstein’s work would not be thrown out, but merely recast as a special case of a larger principle. This would seem to echo how Einstein did not invalidate Newton, but showed Newton’s ideas to be a special case in restricted domain.

Now, an open speculation proposed by obscure YECs like Barry Setterfield and myself is this: the formation of the filamentary structures of galaxies in the universe, and the galaxies themselves was the result of Birkeland currents flowing through plasma in the backdrop of a decreasing speed of light.

What will happen to matter if the speed of light has decreased over time. Supposes a particle was travelling a thousand times the current speed of light today, but maybe only 30% the speed of light in the past. One speculation is the particle will decelerate in order to maintain its relationship to the decreasing speed of light. Suppose it is a charged particle. Will it have electromagnetic radiations as a result of the deceleration (bremsstrahlung)? I don’t think so, but who knows? But the answer to such questions may solve an open problem in physics.

We all know what it’s like when we’re running late, and if we’re on the road we’re tempted to drive faster to get to the destination. The problem with galaxy formation is the building blocks, according to what we observe, were moving too slow given the gravitation forces involved. This relates to a classic problem in cosmology.

My professor of Quantum Mechanics at GMU, Dr. James Trefil, was famous for making the following statement, one which relates to a problem of speed and time.

Five Reasons Why Galaxies Can’t Exist

The problem of explaining the existence of galaxies has proved to be one of the thorniest in cosmology. By all rights, they just shouldn’t be there, yet there they sit. It’s hard to convey the depth of frustration that this simple fact induces among scientists.

James Trefil,
The Dark Side of the Universe, p. 55.

One solution that Trefil and his colleagues proposed was the notion of “Dark Matter” in order to reconcile mainstream physics with the problem of galaxies.

But then 3 other professors at GMU, including Menas Kafatos, offered their public objection to the fabrication of potentially fictitious entities like Dark Matter to kluge a flawed theory.

The basic problem is one of speed. Gravity is too weak to confer sufficient speed to form the galaxies if we suppose the universe is even 13.4 Billion years old (much less 10,000 years).

But regarding the problem of speed, consider the fact that if we observe a car crawling along at 5 mph hour, do we wonder how this slow car managed to travel 60 miles in the last hour? Not at all! A simple solution is that the car was moving faster in the past and that our observation of the car’s present motions is not necessarily an indication of its velocity an hour earlier…..this relation is formalized by one of the most classic equation in physics:

where t = time, D(t) = distance, and v(t) = instantaneous velocity at time t

One speculation Barry Setterfield and I postulate is that if galactic building blocks were moving at high velocity in the past, they could be decelerated as the Zero Point Energy (ZPE) changed and the speed of light decreased. The change in the ZPE necessitates a decrease in the speed of light as well as an isotropic deceleration of everything else. Voila, the galaxies can form in such a universe (details saved for later)…..

The problems associated with gravitational accretion and formation disappear if we invoke the forces other than gravitation as the force which assembled the galaxies. What other force could that be? God? Well, yes, but even God can express his work through forces of nature. Setterfield and I (and others) propose the force is magnetic, the result of Birkeland currents flowing through plasmas.

Let us suppose that we have all the subatomic particles we need spread throughout the cosmos, but in a plasma state. First of all what is the proportion of these particles (neutrons, protons, electrons)….Answer: The proportion we find in water! What an amazing coincidence with the book of Genesis. The waters in the heavens might be a reference to the plamsa state of matter, approximated by the proportion of sub-atomic particles in water. It is arguable that the cosmos was formed from water, if one is willing to allow a small bit of poetic license….

Now what happens when a Birkeland current drives through a plasma. Well, perhaps a picture is worth a thousand words:

Now if we have highspeed particles coming togother, we would assume an insane amout of kinetic enery, and thus heat. But the heat problem can be solved if the matter is isotropically decelerated by a change in the ZPE which isotropically slows all matter and light.

Thus the existence of the galaxies need not be a mystery. There is no need for kluges like dark matter (which won’t work anyway), since gravitational accretion was not the cause of of cosmic structure.

It would also solve the problem of the filamentary organization of the galaxies. Dr. Trefil even had a chapter in his book referring to theories of filamentary organization of galaxies through gravitational mechanisms as “snake oil” (comically poking fun at even one of his own theories with a bit of self-deprecating humor!).

This organization galaxies and filamentary structures does not agree well with a graviational accretion scenario. Gravity (the discovery of the creationist Newoton) as the creator of galaxies does not accord well with basic physics. However Electro-Dynamics (the discovery of the creationist Faraday, Maxwell and others) as the creator of galaxies does accord well with basic physics, especially if one is will to allow a VSL cosmology.

God didn’t use gravity to form the galaxies, he used electricity.