When God Released His Light Into The Universe

Common Sense Commentary: Light is something. It has mass, energy, heat, healing, vitamin "D", cleansing, illumination, speed, radioactive rays, and every color in existence. It is something.  Darkness is nothing ... except the absence of light. RB


When God said "Let there be light", in Genesis 1:3, the lights came on and haven't gone off since.  Even when a star dies, all the light it has beamed out into the universe continues on it's eternal journey across infinite space.  The light, of many stars which  died thousands of years ago, we are still seeing in the sky as if they were still there.  The reason for that is that the distance from here to that star is so great that it is measured in "Light Years" not miles.  A light year is the distance light travels in one year at the "Speed of Light" which is 186,000 miles a second or 700 million miles an hour. For scale, the distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 239,000 miles. So it only takes less than two seconds for the light of the Moon to reach earth. The average distance to the sun from earth is 93,020,000 miles and therefore it's light takes eight light minutes to reach earth.  The sun is a million times larger than the earth but relatively small compared to the stars, so we can only imagine how far they are from us.  My point is, they are so far away that even after they die and go out, their light continues it's distant journey to earth long after the star dies out. It's light continues past earth on out into the universe, in every direction from where it started, and never ceases because the universe is infinite (has no end).  "And God said, Let there be light; and there was light" forever and ever and ever and ever ... unless God puts it out. RB

Here is the first Paragraph of an article I just read from the L.A. Times, this morning.


By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times

November 1, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Stars may burn out and die, but their light goes on forever. All the light ever produced by stars is still circulating through the universe, a phenomenon known as extragalactic background light or EBL. This light is a kind of cosmic "fog" that dims light from distant stars passing through it, much like the beams from a lighthouse are dimmed by real fog. Now, for the first time, astronomers have been able to measure the sum total of EBL and to calculate the spacing of stars in the cosmos. They reported Thursday in the journal Science that the average density of stars in the universe is about 1.4 per 100 billion cubic light-years. That means that the average distance between stars is about 4,150 light-years..... 




WHAT ????

My my my my my .... Dear Lord, how big is your universe ... how bright is your light? RB