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Chris Ho-Stuart <hostuart@fit.qut.edu.au> wrote in
news:3fe2901b@news.qut.edu.au:

> In talk.origins Dr. Jason Gastrich <news@jcsm.org> wrote:
>> John Harshman wrote:
>>
>>> So how far are you willing to take this? Did God create the world
>>> 6000 years ago with light on its way here from supernovae that never
>>> actually happened?
>>
>> Light in transit is one theory.  I prefer the theory that light is
>> not a constant and the speed of light has slowed.
>
> A very neat disproof of that notion is the calculation of the
> distance to SN1987A -- the supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
> It is surrounded by rings, which were already there before supernova.
>
> The rings are about 1.3 light years across. We know this, because
> of how long it took for the light from the supernova to reach the
> rings. We also know how big they are appear in the sky.
>
> From this a simple trignometic calculation shows that the
> supernova is 169,000 light years away; it exploded 169,000
> years ago.
>
> If the speed of light was faster way back when, then the
> ring would be correspondingly LARGER, and hence the
> supernova further will be further away.
>
> I discussed this in a post to TheologyWeb recently.
>    <http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=827b33c184106753d
>    9e466ef90b13dea&threadid=14656>
> More details and references can be found there.

Do you think this would be a good addition to the Archive as an
appendix to the astronomical distances FAQ?



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