Our moon
I'm blessed to have another post to add tonight. Just when i supposed i had been drained of inspiration the previous two days, i have come across another one. Thanks, Isaac Newton.
PBS televised a Nova presentation on the "Hidden secrets of Isaac Newton" that i found as i coasted through the channels tonight. The part in particular that inspired me was their look at Newton's Law of Gravitation. He wrote out the thought experiment he conducted as he pondered this unseen enigma. He imagined a cannon on a very, very high mountain- A mountian like 100 miles tall. Without the influence of gravity, said cannon would fire a cannonball that would keep on going in a straight line in accordance with the First Law of Motion. With the assumption of gravitational force, however, the cannonball will behave differently. Imagine the cannonball just being dropped out of the nozzle. Due to gravity, it's going to drop straight down for those 400 miles. Now picture the cannonball launched with enough force to thrust it 4000 miles horizontally around the earth's sphere before it reached the end of its parabola and hit the ground. Finally, fathom blasting the cannonball at just the right speed that it did a full circle around the earth with gravity barely affecting a loss in altitude. The cannonball's inertia and earth's gravity are in a balancing act; the cannonball is in orbit. Guess what else is in orbit? The moon around the earth, and similarly the earth around the sun. Consider how specific the speed must be at which the cannonball enters orbit to stay there. Likewise, consider how specific the distance and speed other orbiting bodies like the earth and moon must be to stay in stable orbit themselves!
The current evolutionary theory for the moon is that an meteor slammed into the earth and broke off a fragment of the earth, which got caught in orbit and became the moon. Well, i have a question: how did the prehistoric moon obtain its horizontal inertia to keep it from being sucked back into the earth again?
The Word of God says that He created the earth on the first day and the sun and moon on the fourth day. God is omniscient, so it would follow that He knew the what had to be the speed and altitude of the earth about the sun and the moon about the earth.
I beleive that God created all that exists and that since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that we are without excuse (Romans 1:20).
There's one more thing to add to the sure hope of eternal life with God!
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I got lots of errands done today since the day-long rain kept me from working. I went to Image Air and asked if i could use the building as a base of flight instruction. Suffice it to say that he said 'no', but i think i established a good relationship with the manager there, and i think i sparked his interest in the Diamond Star that Tim Koster is trying to sell. Afterwards i made a deposit at the bank, purchased a collection of wedding songs for the piano and Rascal Flatts' Feels Like Today CD.
Hope ya'll are doin well!
PBS televised a Nova presentation on the "Hidden secrets of Isaac Newton" that i found as i coasted through the channels tonight. The part in particular that inspired me was their look at Newton's Law of Gravitation. He wrote out the thought experiment he conducted as he pondered this unseen enigma. He imagined a cannon on a very, very high mountain- A mountian like 100 miles tall. Without the influence of gravity, said cannon would fire a cannonball that would keep on going in a straight line in accordance with the First Law of Motion. With the assumption of gravitational force, however, the cannonball will behave differently. Imagine the cannonball just being dropped out of the nozzle. Due to gravity, it's going to drop straight down for those 400 miles. Now picture the cannonball launched with enough force to thrust it 4000 miles horizontally around the earth's sphere before it reached the end of its parabola and hit the ground. Finally, fathom blasting the cannonball at just the right speed that it did a full circle around the earth with gravity barely affecting a loss in altitude. The cannonball's inertia and earth's gravity are in a balancing act; the cannonball is in orbit. Guess what else is in orbit? The moon around the earth, and similarly the earth around the sun. Consider how specific the speed must be at which the cannonball enters orbit to stay there. Likewise, consider how specific the distance and speed other orbiting bodies like the earth and moon must be to stay in stable orbit themselves!
The current evolutionary theory for the moon is that an meteor slammed into the earth and broke off a fragment of the earth, which got caught in orbit and became the moon. Well, i have a question: how did the prehistoric moon obtain its horizontal inertia to keep it from being sucked back into the earth again?
The Word of God says that He created the earth on the first day and the sun and moon on the fourth day. God is omniscient, so it would follow that He knew the what had to be the speed and altitude of the earth about the sun and the moon about the earth.
I beleive that God created all that exists and that since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that we are without excuse (Romans 1:20).
There's one more thing to add to the sure hope of eternal life with God!
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I got lots of errands done today since the day-long rain kept me from working. I went to Image Air and asked if i could use the building as a base of flight instruction. Suffice it to say that he said 'no', but i think i established a good relationship with the manager there, and i think i sparked his interest in the Diamond Star that Tim Koster is trying to sell. Afterwards i made a deposit at the bank, purchased a collection of wedding songs for the piano and Rascal Flatts' Feels Like Today CD.
Hope ya'll are doin well!
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