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Philosophy
* Newton Bair
THE 16 BILLION
YEAR-OLD UNIVERSE
The Earth we inhabit is only a
tiny speck of dust in the Cosmos. If
someone in the center of our
Galaxy would try to find the Earth
with the most powerful telescope
that exists, our Earth could not be
seen.
Since life began, Man has
looked outward to the heavens and
wondered. The Stars seemed to be
fixed in space, never moving in
relation to each other, but moving
as a single body from East to West
across the night sky. He wondered
about a few of those “stars” that
seemed to move about among the
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others at an almost predictable rate
and direction. Planets differed in
size, brightness and color. At first
they seemed to revolve about the
Earth, with Earth as the center of
everything. It is a part of our ego
that makes us the center, with all
else revolving about us! We now
know how silly that is. Or is it?
Well, we are learning that the
Universe is much more complex
than we thought. Cosmic space can
no longer be measured by the
simple math used by Sir Isaac
Newton and Gallileo. Our units of
time and distance must be
expanded to accommodate its
greatness. Distance is measured in
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Light Years. The Universal Con
stant in nature is the speed of light,
which is 186,000 miles per second.
If the nearest star to the sun should
explode or disappear today, we
wouldn’t see it happen until four
years later! The Super Nova or
exploding star that was recently
observed by astronomers, actually
blew up over two thousand years
ago, but the light just got to us now.
The Milky Way Galaxy, of
which our Solar system is a small
part, is hundreds of thousands of
light years in diameter. On a dark
night, with no city lights to inter
fere, we can see the bright glow
from the billions of stars and suns
that inhabit the far reaches of the
Milky Way. Some of those stars
are bigger than our entire solar sys
tem, but they are so distant that we
see only their collective glow,
rather than single points of light.
There are many thousands of Gala
xies similar to ours. Some are so
vast in size that they can be seen
with binoculars, even though they
are unbelievably distant. Space
travel, as imagined by Science
fiction writers, is unthinkable, by
all the laws of nature we presently
understand. It would take the span
of many generations, not single
lifetimes, to travel to other parts of
our galaxy. And many more mil
lennia to try to reach another
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galaxy. Assuming, of course, that
we could travel at a speed
approaching that of light, which
we have little hope of doing.
Now, another amazing truth is
that all of these heavenly bodies
are in motion. The sky never seems
to change, yet every star and every
galaxy is moving at incredible
speed. Yes, we can see the moon
encircle the Earth every month,
and the Earth complete its orbit
around the sun every year. But
what we find hard to believe is that
our star, the Sun, also travels about
the Milky Way. The distance is so
great that it takes about 200 million
years to make one complete circle!
Scientists who study the Cos
mos, and who made these marvel
ous observations, have concluded
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Ridge Fire Hall near Bucktown.
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secretary and general manager,
will be the guest speaker. Dr. Hand
will report on cooperative business
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that there are indeed other dimen
sions to the Universe beside
length, width and height. One
dimension is time. There may even
be other dimensions as yet undis
covered. One intriguing theory is
that ever since the Big Bang, the
Creation indeed, the whole Uni
verse is expanding at a tremendous
rate. It appears that the galaxies
farthest removed from ours are
traveling the fastest It further
appears that there may be a curve
in their trajectory, like the surface
of a sphere.
Try to recapture the wonder and
glory of the Shepherds, who
named the stars and planets and
constellations. Look at the sky, and
savor the beauty and wonder of
Creation!
District
and dairy issues.
During the meeting, elections
will be held for officers and dele
gates for the coming year. In addi
tion, 25-year membership awards
will be presented to the Titus S.
Kurtz family, Elverson, and Dis
trict 8 Director Andrew D. Stolt
zfus, Morgantown.