White hole cosmology

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'''White hole cosmology''' is a [[creationist cosmologies|creationist cosmology]] invented by [[creationist]] [[Russell Humphrey]] and put forward in his 1994 book ''[[Starlight and time|Starlight and Time]]''.<ref>[http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/unraveling.shtml  The Unraveling of Starlight and Time]</ref> The theory is not based on any observable evidence, but rather on the creationist desire to solve the challenge to the 6000 year-old earth that the [[starlight problem]] poses. White hole cosmology is currently regarded as [[pseudoscience]] by the general scientific community, but is still claimed to be the truth by creationist organizations such as [[Answers in Genesis]] and the [[Institute for creation research|Institute for Creation Research]].
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'''White hole cosmology''' is a [[creationist cosmologies|creationist cosmology]] invented by [[creationist]] [[Russell Humphrey]] and put forward in his 1994 book ''[[Starlight and time|Starlight and Time]]''.<ref>[http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/unraveling.shtml  The Unraveling of Starlight and Time]</ref> The theory is not based on any observable evidence, but rather on the creationist desire to solve the challenge to the 6000 year-old earth that the [[starlight problem]] poses. White hole cosmology is currently regarded as [[pseudoscience]] by the general scientific community, but is claimed to be the truth by creationist organizations such as [[Answers in Genesis]] and the [[Institute for creation research|Institute for Creation Research]].<ref ="WP>[[WP:Answers in Genesis]]</ref>
  
 
The "theory" states that during creation week, the earth was placed inside a time dilation field that allowed billions of years to take place outside the dilation field, while only six days passed inside.
 
The "theory" states that during creation week, the earth was placed inside a time dilation field that allowed billions of years to take place outside the dilation field, while only six days passed inside.

Revision as of 02:18, 30 August 2007

White hole cosmology is a creationist cosmology invented by creationist Russell Humphrey and put forward in his 1994 book Starlight and Time.[1] The theory is not based on any observable evidence, but rather on the creationist desire to solve the challenge to the 6000 year-old earth that the starlight problem poses. White hole cosmology is currently regarded as pseudoscience by the general scientific community, but is claimed to be the truth by creationist organizations such as Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research.[2]

The "theory" states that during creation week, the earth was placed inside a time dilation field that allowed billions of years to take place outside the dilation field, while only six days passed inside.

White hole cosmology, while possibly doing away with the starlight problem, has the interesting effect of incinerating everything contained within the time dilation field. The idea requires that the universe outside the solar system is as old as contemporary scientists hold it to be,[3] 13,700,000,000 years.[4] They then say that while all this time past outside the vicinity of the earth only six days (creation week) passed on earth. The stars outside the dilation field would still be emitting light towards earth at the same rate which would have to be compressed into six days of time which would cause celestial objects outside the dilation field to appear roughly 833,416,666,666 times brighter inside the field, raising the surface temperature of the earth to possibly millions of degrees.

White Holes in Science

A white hole is the theoretical time reversal of a black hole, which is not disallowed by quantum theory. In such a time reversal, however, the 2nd law of thermodynamics would also be reversed. This would result in causality reversal, and would thus be undetectable to any thought process or mechanism operating in such a universe. The upshot is that we might be living in such a universe now and be unable to recognise it.

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References

  1. The Unraveling of Starlight and Time
  2. WP:Answers in Genesis
  3. A new cosmology: solution to the starlight travel time problem
  4. WP:Age of the universe
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