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Should all convictions come from Scripture ?

EdSutton

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John of Japan said:
Thanks for the correction, Farmer Ed. It's been a long time since I studied the stuff.

This is something I very recently read an article about, and I certainly could have missed the boat. I'll be interested in what your physicist friend says.
The subject is the speed of light. This is what Edward L. Hamilton, PhD Univ of Colorado, post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern Univ. had to say on this.
At the moment, the speed of light is DEFINED to be constant in a volume.
NIST (the former National Bureau of Standards) has defined the speed of
light as 299,792,458 m/s exactly. Thus, the speed of light in a vacuum is
always exactly that speed. Distances are defined relative to that
standard, and all other speeds are regarded as a fraction of that
standard. The distance that light travels in 1/299,792,458 seconds is used
as the definition for a meter.

In other words, it's not possible for the speed of light to change, ever,
in the SI unit system.
. . .

Roughly speaking, the answer to your question is: The speed of light is
arbitrary, so it can be defined to be constant. Non-arbitrary
dimensionless parameters that contain the speed of light are not assumed
to be constant, but have been found to be constant in all the experiments
we've been able to perform so far. . . (Edward L. Hamilton, PhD, research physicist)
There 'tis!

Ed
 
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John of Japan

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EdSutton said:
The subject is the speed of light. This is what Edward L. Hamilton, PhD Univ of Colorado, post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern Univ. had to say on this. There 'tis!

Ed
Whew! That educated me--I think. Can anyone explain this in 1969 high school physics terms? :tonofbricks:
 

tinytim

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John of Japan said:
Whew! That educated me--I think. Can anyone explain this in 1969 high school physics terms? :tonofbricks:

The speed of light is the same speed in all experiments.... I think....
 

John of Japan

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tinytim said:
The speed of light is the same speed in all experiments.... I think....
Okay, tinytim. I've got it. Tomorrow at exactly 4:00 P. M. I'm going to shine a flashlight at you, and you hold out a mirror. I'll have my stopwatch ready and clock the light, then we'll be sure. That's an experiement, right? :thumbs: :thumbs: (But you have to figure out what time that will be over there.... :eek:
 

rbell

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At the moment, the speed of light is DEFINED to be constant in a volume. NIST (the former National Bureau of Standards) has defined the speed of light as 299,792,458 m/s exactly. Thus, the speed of light in a vacuum is always exactly that speed.


Dontcha feel sorry for the poor sap who had to turn on the light in that vacuum?
 

donnA

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Our convictions need to be biblically based, otherwise they are personal opinion only. The bible is our only source of authority, not opinions of men, otherwise we'd be rcc.
 

menageriekeeper

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Hey, my Dyson will inhale you and if you get stuck in the hose, it still won't lose suction! :D

Dumb question from someone who doesn't want to go back and read the last few questions:

What does the speed of light have to do with "should all convictions come from the Bible'?
 

Friend of God

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If our convictions aren't Biblically based then we don't stand for nothing...we stand for anything.

MK: Nature abhors a vacuum...so do dogs.
 

John of Japan

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menageriekeeper said:
Hey, my Dyson will inhale you and if you get stuck in the hose, it still won't lose suction! :D
Alas, they don't sell those in Japan or I could try it. :eek:
Dumb question from someone who doesn't want to go back and read the last few questions:

What does the speed of light have to do with "should all convictions come from the Bible'?
The argument is that nothing is sure outside of God's revelation. We can't take our convictions from science, psychology, etc., because they are always changing. :type:
 

menageriekeeper

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The argument is that nothing is sure outside of God's revelation. We can't take our convictions from science, psychology, etc., because they are always changing. :type:

Ah, gotcha! Thought the thread had taken a strange turn somewhere or other!

No Dyson's in Japan? Somehow I always have the idea that if it's new in technology then Japan has it soon after we do (if not before). I hate that you can't experience a true vacuum. ;)
 

John of Japan

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menageriekeeper said:
Ah, gotcha! Thought the thread had taken a strange turn somewhere or other!

No Dyson's in Japan? Somehow I always have the idea that if it's new in technology then Japan has it soon after we do (if not before). I hate that you can't experience a true vacuum. ;)
Well, there's probably a reverse engineered Dyson clone somewhere here! :p

Wait a minute. I just googled it, and there is a Dyson branch in Japan. I was wr...; I was mista...; I was not entirely accurate in my assessment. I have never seen a Dyson here, but lo and behold! :eek:
 
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menageriekeeper

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I'm convinced that everyone needs a dyson! "The Animal" is the version I have and I haven't killed it yet. I've only had it about 4 years though. The household record is held by a Windtunnel (Eureka?). It lasted 7 years.

Now that we have thoroughly hijacked this thread, lets go back to the OP with a revised question:

Should all religious convictions be based on the Bible?
 
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