Interesting article i came across. =)



The Sun Stood Still


"Well, we've found there is a day missing in space in the elapsed time." Did you know that the space program is busy providing that what has been called a 'myth' in the Bible is true?! Mr. Harold Hill, president of Curits Engine company, Baltimore, Michigan, and a consultant in the space program related the following development:

"I think that one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Michigan. They were checking the position of the sun, moon and planets out there, where they would be 100 and 1000 years from now. We have to know this so that we don't send a satellite up and have it bump into some-thing later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbit in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be, so the whole thing will not bog down."

They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries, and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong, either in the info fed in it, or with the results as compared with the standards. They called the service department to check it out, and they said, "It's perfect."

The IBM head of operations asked, "What's wrong?" "Well, we've found there is a day, missing in space in the elapsed time." They scratched their heads and pulled their hair. There was no answer... One Christian fellow in the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still." They did not believe him but they didn't have any other answer, so they said, "Show us."

He got a Bible, and went back to Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement, for anybody who had common sense. They found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not. I have delivered them into Thy hand. There shall not a man of them stand before Thee." Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell they could overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still. That's right. "The sun stood and the moon stayed.....and hasted not to go down, about a whole day." Well, they checked the computers, going back into the time it was written, and found it was close, but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's time was 23 hours and 20 minutes - not a whole day.

They read the bible and there it said, "...about a whole day." These little words in the Bible are important. BUT they were still in trouble, because if you cannot account for 40 minutes you'll be in trouble 10,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found, because it multiplies many times over in orbits. Well, this Christian fellow also remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards.

The space men told him that he was out of his mind. But they got the Bible and read these words in 2 Kings 20:10. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah, who told him he was not going to die. Hezekiah did not believe him and asked him for a sign of proof. Isaiah asked, "Do you want the sun to go ahead ten degrees?"

Hezekiah said, "It is nothing for the sun to go ahead ten degrees, but let the shadow turn back ten degrees backward." Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes. So 23 hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 Kings, make the 24 hours that space travellers now have to log in the log-book as missing day in the universe.

Been quite a while since i last posted, yet not that long in terms of the history of man's existence.
in the past couple of weeks, some changes took place, for the better or worse? depends on how one's perspective.
maybe if it was possible to communicate and analyze how good or bad those changes were by using mathematical equations, things might be much easier to understand. before a decision is being made, we would know thoroughly the statistics of the problem/situation, thus giving us further insight into it and enabling us to make wiser choices in our lives.

It never is simple or easy to put ideas and thoughts into words that appropriately do them justice, no matter how agile one is with words and linguistic skills. hence, i suggest using other forms of communication. the most ideal would be to transfer information from an individual to another by linking neurons located in the brain between the 2 individuals? do the nervous pathways of everyone of us run along the same paths or go through similar processes? if they do, then is it possible to actually fuse neurons together or join pathways between the 2 people? hmm..however, human biological processes and functions are not as simple as it seems due to its dynamicity and lack of accurate scientific methods to study the body. What occurs in vitro is very much unlike the reality of it happening in vivo. Hence, the preferred method to study the body would be in vivo but how many scientists can achieve that wouldnt affecting the results unconsciously? Like some say, observation in an experiment itself spoils the results. The most ambiguous and least reliable step in conducting a study is the observation of results. Maybe because scientists are too caught up with their theoretical hypothesis, that the importance of the actual results are lost. Pity that it often is the case. If they had taken notice of the results with respect to other situations and scenarios, they might have landed themselves with a nobel prize. Looking at the prize winners and the various discoveries in nobel prize history, one can note that the most important discoveries are through so-called accidents. An example is the discovery of penicillin, an antibiotic against bacteria. It was first discovered by Alexander Flemming but he was not able to prove its therapeutic value and hence was dismissed as anything worthwile by his knowledgeble self. Later Ernst Chain, Howard Florey and Edward Abraham succesfully proved it's therapeutic effects. And all 3, Flemming, Florey and Chain went on to receive the Nobel prize for the discovery.
From this, i conclude that having an open mind (an ideal state) is one of the crucial qualities a good researcher should possess.

I shall end my long writing here with this quote i "happened" to find over the internet.
Louis Pasteur wrote, "In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."

Let me have silence always in the centre of the shouting, that is essential. Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper. Escape is for all our spouting, nor the needle scratching upon this gramophone of the circular cosmic spot. Hear me, mark me, learn me, throw the mind's ear open. Shut up the mind's eye, all will be music. What sculpture of sound cannot, what cannot as a fluid token words, that nothing else cannot."

-- Wyndham Lewis