Pulsars
Sep 16th 2007Bryan JohnsonUncategorized
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
One of the reasons God created stars was to mark time. The Bible mentions days and years, but now that we are able to measure very short intervals of time, it turns out that God had something out there for that as well. Astronomers have recently (since 1967) discovered many stars that emit pulses of light at regular intervals. They are referred to as pulsars, and the frequency at which they vary in intensity is on the order of 1000 times per second. Not only that, but the stability of pulsar timing rivals that of the most accurate atomic-based clocks used on Earth.
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