The article started out with a picture that included this title: “An artist’s illustration traces the long, cosmic path of a fast radio burst that originated in distant galaxies and reached Earth 8 billion years later.” So, right from the git-go the writer made it difficult to take the report seriously.
“But Tony,” you might say, This “fast radio burst is one of the most distant and energetic ever observed.”
Well, I sit corrected, then. Yeah, it must be 8 billion years old.
Because if it’s fast AND distant AND energetic, then it must be really, really old. Sounds exactly like observable life and circumstances. What was I thinking? OK, I’ve decided to take the article seriously.
So, then the writer followed up the initial, outlandi…oops, I mean scientific paragraph with a name for the radio burst. And I won’t laugh, even though I want to. They couldn’t come up with something catchy like R2D2. Or C Threepio. Nope. They called it “FRB 20220610A.” And it “lasted less than a millisecond.”
But according to a study published in the Journal Science, “in that fraction of a moment, it released the equivalent of our sun’s energetic emissions over the course of 30 years.”
In case you wanna know how “scientists” discover or observe radio blasts, the writer said, “Radio telescopes have helped astronomers trace these quick cosmic flashes. Including the ASKAP array of radio telescopes, located on Wajarri Yamaji Country in Western Australia. Astronomers used ASKAP to detect the FRB in June 2022 and determine where it originated.”
So, what do all these radio blasts indicate or tell us.
Aw, who knows? Well, the scientists, that’s who.
They say, “This finding aligns with current theories that suggest fast radio bursts may come from magnetars, or highly energetic objects that result from the explosions of stars.” And they also believe that “fast radio bursts may be a unique method that can be used to ‘weigh’ the universe by measuring the matter between galaxies that remains unaccounted for.”
OK, I know these are “scientists” we’re getting this information from. But that raises a red flag for me. Because if we’re not even sure how big the universe is, how can we know how much matter “remains unaccounted for?”
But that seems to be a quest for them. Here’s an example of why I say that:
“If we count up the amount of normal matter in the Universe, the atoms that we are all made of, we find that more than half of what should be there today is missing,” said study coauthor Ryan Shannon, a professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.
Wait a second. Ryan said something he probably didn’t mean to say. Because my guess is he doesn’t believe in a created universe. And that’s because it would point to a Creator. But Ryan described “normal matter in the universe” as “the atoms we are all MADE of.”
But the word “made” points to a Maker.
And, again, whether the universe was MADE or just happened on its own, how can anyone assert that when it comes to the atoms we are all made of, “half of what should be there is missing?”
It’s just bizarre what comes out of the minds of those who either hate God or deny His existence. And they come up with HUGE numbers because they have to in order to account for all the complexities in life.
Those numbers tend to remind me of that obnoxious, ongoing bus ride song, 99 Bottle Of Beer On The Wall. So, I wrote a pseudo-science verse you can sing to that tune. It goes a little like this. A one and a two and a…
8 billion years made up over time,
8 billion years made up.
You add one more to cover the score,
9 billion years made up over time.
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