l not have multiple brides. Return to text.
- Interview on Radio 2GB, Sydney, Australia, Feb. 1, 1996, reported in Creation 18(3):7, 1996. Return to text.
- As a result of “NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s desire to make the search for extraterrestrial life one of the central themes for his agency”, Nature 404(6779):700, April 13, 2000. Return to text.
- Boyd, R., “Sorry, but we are alone”, The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Australia, April 14, 2000, p. 10. Return to text.
- See Bates, G., Did God create life on other planets? Otherwise why is the universe so big? Creation 29(2):12–15, 2007; creation.com/did-god-create-life-on other-planets; and his book Alien Intrusion: UFOs and the evolution connection, CBP, 2005. Return to text.
- See Sarfati, J., By Design: Evidence for Nature’s Intelligent Designer—the God of the Bible, CBP, 2008 (available from addresses on p. 2); creation.com/origin. Return to text.
- The mass increase is given by the Lorentz Factor γ = 1/√(1-v²/c²), where v is the relative velocity between the aether and the object, and c is the speed of light. This is only about 2 at 90%c, 7 at 99%c, 22 at 99.9%c, but quickly approaches infinity as v approaches c. Return to text.
- Wikipedia, an OK source for non-controversial things but unreliable for conservative or Christian topics, says, “In 2008, total worldwide energy consumption was 474 exajoules (474×1018 J) with 80 to 90 percent derived from the combustion of fossil fuels.” Return to text.
- The mass of a hydrogen atom, and thus an anti-hydrogen atom, is 1.66 × 10−27 kg Return to text.
- A snowflake has a mass of about 3 mg, so its kinetic energy, again by E = ½mv², is ½ × 3 × 10–6 kg × (108 m/s)² = 1.5 × 1010 J. A gram of TNT releases 980–1100 calories upon explosion, but this was standardized to 1000 cal exactly = 4.184 kilojoules. So a ton(ne) (106 g) of TNT is standardized to 4.184 × 109 J, meaning that the impact would be 3.6 tons. Return to text.
- E = ½mv², is ½ × 1 kg × (108 m/s)² = 5 × 1015 J; a megaton of TNT is 4.184 × 1015 J. Return to text.
Perhaps, it would be good to update the inset box about impacts using momentum instead of energy equations, especially the part about hitting a snowflake at high velocity. As a mechanical engineer, in dynamics courses, we use impulse momentum to analyze collisions rather than energy equations. Energy is certainly the right analysis for interstellar travel, but the bit about collisions should be done using m1v1 + fdt = m2v2. To accelerate a 0.1 mg snow flake up to 0.1*c in (generously) 1 ms, from rest would require a force of f = 3 x 107 N which would convert to the weight of about 300 elephants to give it meaning to non-technical folks.
Thank you for your comments. I am not sure how to relate momentum to nuclear explosions though. Also, momentum is useful for determining how the velocities are changed by the impact, but in this case, energy is most useful because it kinetic energy must be converted to something else upon impact.