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Dave
There's an interesting article in the October 2007 issue of Acts & Facts from the Institutue for Creation Research about the "Pioneer Anomaly." It can be found at:

http://www.icr.org/article/3472/

Talk of cosmology makes my brain hurt, but the layman's explanation in the article piqued my interest, especially as it discusses issues that have been raised here lately about speed of light, the Big Bang, and such.

The "Pioneer anomaly" is the situation where the speed of our long-range spacecraft has diminished in the farthest reaches of their explorations beyond the planet Pluto. That slowing down has been calculated at .85 billionths of a meter per second per second, which turns out to be very close to the Hubble constant (H) times the speed of light ©.

Since this discovery, scientists have spent years trying to find an explanation, but as late as 2005 the JPL team has found them all unsatisfactory.

Basically, Dr. Humphreys builds a model of the universe from the Bible, applies the "stretching" that God mentions in several places in the Bible, and then explains how that might affect the speed of light and radio waves and such. He says the numbers correspond to the Pioneer anomaly.

Be aware that the Act and Facts article is a very-much watered down layman's version. The author asks that those who want to argue his assertions should do so from the technical paper linked at the end of the article and not from the Acts and Facts article.

Dave
4jacks
Wow Dave,

Great article...

The Technical Paper is very nice, very well formatted 10 page PDF.
Gonna save that to read on a rainy day.
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