July 05, 2024

The Hubble Constant, Speed of Light, and Other Cosmic Wonders

45 minutes

We continue our discussion about the Hubble Constant and delve into a few other cosmic anomalies, including the assumption Albert Einstein made regarding the speed of light.

And, somehow, we also ended up talking about Noah's flood and the Whopper Sand. You'll have to listen to the end to find out how that happened!

Come and see how we think it all points to the glory and majesty of God.

Dan's very short video on the whooper sand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r9COYBra94

The following links are not meant to imply the ideas contained therein reflect those of Good Heavens! or Watchman Fellowship, Inc. All of these, with the exception of Danny Faulkner, are presented from a completely secular perspective of the universe

Veritasium Video on the one-way speed of light problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k

More in-depth on the Hubble Constant -

Interview with Christian astronomer Dr. Danny Faulkner on the Hubble Constant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqUkhyxCbPE

Cosmological constant (not the same as the Hubble constant, but related).

https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_accel.html

Hubble constant - two different ways to measure (from 2020).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-dispute-over-a-single-number-became-a-cosmological-crisis/

Three ways to measure Hubble constant.

https://news.uchicago.edu/explainer/hubble-constant-explained

Brian Keating short video about using magnetism to measure the Hubble constant

https://youtu.be/kBdtvURyJ8Q?si=-wlE-9D1emA-NP1-

Dr. Becky most recent video on the crisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKmPJmaeP8A

Adam Riese from the Space Telescope Science Institute who won the Nobel Prize in the late 90s for discovering the universe expansion was (allegedly) accelerating. His SH0ES team measured the Hubble constant at 74 km/s/mpsc, far above Wendy Freedman’s 69.8 and the CMBR at 67.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmDszPExepc

Scientific American article on the HC from October 2023.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-possible-crisis-in-the-cosmos-could-lead-to-a-new-understanding-of-the-universe/

Wendy Freedman’s initial project of measuring HC using the HST to measure Cepheids.

https://www.stsci.edu/stsci/meetings/shst2/freedmanw.html

Historical background on the HC from STScI. (2020)

https://www.stsci.edu/contents/newsletters/2020-volume-37-issue-02/hubble-and-the-constant-the-next-and-the-next-generation

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