21 Nov 2024, Thusday

 21 Nov 2024, Thursday

Prioritized Daily Task

7:00 AM - Debbie's weight training class

11:15 AM - Saratoga Springs Temple endowment proxy appointment

1:30 PM - Saratoga Springs Temple endowment proxy appointment

4:00 PM - Saratoga Springs Temple initiatory proxy appointment

Tylee Hobb's 19th Birthday

Debbie was up at 6 AM and went to her weight training class.  I got up at about 7 AM, had prayer, got ready, and went to the temple at 10:30 AM.  Debbie and I did two endowment sessions and one initiatory session. I had more thoughts about the creation while in the temple.  *What is the dark matter like in a black hole as compared to other places in space?  My second thought is there dark matter in an atom between the neutron/proton and the electrons?  After the temple, we went to Zupus and Walmart to pick up a few items.  We got home and Debbie cooked dinner.  Porter came by to pick up male names for temple baptisms tomorrow.  Debbie is giving him some money to help buy his high school basketball uniforms.  Debbie made cornbread (without sugar).  We had it and black-eyed peas, potatoes, and broccoli, along with the soup and salad I got at Zupus earlier.  After dinner, I cleaned most of the kitchen.  Debbie fine-tuned the cleaning.  Debbie watched some TV while I read.  We had prayer together before going to bed at 11:30 PM.

*Notes and Thoughts regarding Kepler, Hidden in the Heavens, Moses, D&C, Intelligence and Matter

21 Nov 2024

Notes and Thoughts regarding Kepler, Hidden in the Heavens, Moses, D&C, Intelligence and Matter

Max and Debbie Kimball’s son-in-law and a member of the NASA Space Team that were responsible for putting the Kepler Telescope in space wrote the book Hidden in the Heavens.  The Kepler space telescope's mission was to search for exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, in a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.  Its Goal was to discover Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of other stars, where liquid water could exist

Johannes Kepler, for whom the Kepler telescope was named passed away 15 November 1630.

In 1584 Dominican Friar Giordano Bruno published his On the Infinite Universe and Worlds, wherein he suggested that the stars in the sky were Suns of their own, and could harbor their own planets. This belief was one of many that brought him before the Roman Inquisition and contributed to his being burned at the stake

There are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, most starts are incredibly far apart.  If you stacked clones of the sun end to end it would take 25 million of them to reach our nearest stellar neighbor.  Our nearest stellar neighbor to Earth is Proxima Centauri.  It is located in the constellation Centaurus and is just over four light-years away, just next door to us.  Andromeda galaxy is the nearby sister galaxy to our own Milky Way.  To cross The Milky Way galaxy which is approximately 100,000 light-years with light travels at 186,282 miles per second.  

The farthest known star is Earendel, and was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope and its light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth.

  We measure time in years and days, but that is a human-centered system.  Earth is 100s even millions of light years from some planets , so their orbits are completely unrelated to how long it takes for the Earth to circle the Sun, or how long it takes to spin on its axis.  A year and a day are meaningless quantities for these planets.  Quantities like the number of planetary orbits are more relevant.

A planet with the "most orbits" around a star would be one closest to the star, completing an orbit very quickly, like Mercury in our solar system, while a planet with the "least orbits" would be one located furthest from the star, taking a very long time to complete one orbit, potentially taking millions or even billions of years depending on the distance; essentially, the farther the planet is, the longer its orbital period and the fewer orbits it would complete over a given period of time.  

(Abraham 3:1 And I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees;

2 And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;

3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

4 And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord’s time, according to the reckoning of Kolob.

2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.) 

From the Hubble telescope we have been able to see and count distant galaxies, faint stars, red dwarfs, everything ever recorded in the sky.  We have multiple stars for every grain of sand on the Earth.  The grains of sand are nowhere near as numerous as the stars.  Yes, the number of stars in the heavens is "an unbelievably large number," but you will find the same number of molecules "in just ten drops of water."

The barycentric Julian date (BJD) for January 1, 4713 BC is the Julian date (JD) corrected for the Earth's position relative to the Solar System's barycenter. The JD is a continuous count of days and fractions of a day since noon on January 1, 4713 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar: no significant event is recorded to have happened on Earth; this date is instead used as the starting point for the Julian Date system in astronomy, where it is considered "Day 0" - essentially marking the beginning of a continuous time scale for astronomical calculations;  The date "January 1, 4713 BCE" was chosen as "day 0" by the scholar Joseph Justus Scaliger because it marked the closest past year where three important astronomical cycles (the solar cycle, lunar cycle, and indiction cycle) all began on the same year, making it a convenient starting point for a continuous chronological system, now known as the Julian Period, used primarily by astronomers to calculate elapsed time between historical events;.  This date was selected because it was the most recent past year where the 28-year solar cycle, the 19-year Metonic cycle (lunar cycle), and the 15-year Indiction cycle (a Roman taxation cycle) all began on the same year, allowing for easier calculations across different calendar systems;.

Before recorded history:

Choosing a date so far in the past ensured it was before most recorded historical events, minimizing the need to adjust for different calendar systems used throughout history.

Joseph Justus Scaliger, a 16th-century scholar, is credited with establishing the Julian Period and selecting this starting date. 

BJD

The BJD is the JD corrected for differences in the Earth's position relative to the Solar System's barycenter. This correction is necessary because the time an astronomical event is observed depends on the changing position of the observer in the Solar System.

Moses 1:33: “And worlds without number have I created; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten” 

D&C 88:11  And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;

12  Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—

13  The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed, even the power of God who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.

14  Now, verily I say unto you, that through the redemption which is made for you is brought to pass the resurrection from the dead.

15  And the spirit and the body are the soul of man.

40:  For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own; justice continueth its course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all things. 

D&C 93:  29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.

30  All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence. 

36:  The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth. 

Isaiah 55:8  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

D&C 121: 33 How long can rolling waters remain impure? What power shall stay the heavens? As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints. 

D&C 130:18  Whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

19  And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come.

20  There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—

21  And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated.

D&C 131:7  There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;

8  We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter.  

Physicists now believe that nothing can travel faster than 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second). Only massless particles, including photons, which make up light, can travel at that speed. It's impossible to accelerate any material object up to the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to do so and is inconsistent with the known laws of physics (today).  

Today there is an unsolved problem in physic, Dark matter.  All the atoms and light in the universe together make up less than five percent of the total contents of the cosmos. The rest is composed of dark matter and dark energy, which are invisible but dominate the structure and evolution of the universe.  Dark matter makes up most of the mass of galaxies and galaxy clusters, and is responsible for the way galaxies are organized on grand scales. Dark energy, meanwhile, is the name we give the mysterious influence driving the accelerated expansion of the universe. What these substances are and how they work are some of the major challenges facing modern astronomers.

Dark matter isn’t simply dark: it’s invisible. Light of all types seems to pass through as though it’s completely transparent. However, dark matter does have mass, which we see by its gravitational influence.

Studies of galaxies show stars and gas moving as though there’s a lot more mass than we can see pulling them along. Based on the motion of what we can observe, galactic dark matter resides in a “halo” surrounding the ordinary matter of the galaxy. Astronomers also study dwarf galaxies, which are less bright and therefore harder to observe, but which contain a higher fraction of dark matter than their larger cousins.    (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian scientists)

Quarks - When scientists split the atom and found electrons. After the particle accelerator was invented, they broke the atom into as many small pieces as they could. These little pieces are called quarks.

Quarks are elementary particles that have no internal structure to split apart and either exist or don't.  The Standard Model determines the top quark's mean lifetime to be roughly 5×10 to the twenty-fifth power of a second.  While a neutron, the center of an atom is inside an atom's nucleus, it is considered stable and can last for essentially an indefinite amount of time; however, if a neutron is free and outside of an atom, it has a short lifespan, decaying into a proton, electron, and antineutrino within about 15 minutes on average.

Note: Another question is about what scientists learned from the Hubble Space Mission, Gravitational Lensing (a phenomenon that occurs when a massive celestial object bends light from a distant source, creating a distorted image) Hubble Site

Does time exist inside a black hole?

From the viewpoint of an observer outside the black hole, time stops. For example, an object falling into the hole would appear frozen in time at the edge of the hole. Inside a black hole is where the real mystery lies. According to Einstein's theory, time and space, in a way, trade places inside the hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3KSMZUFUo       The Meaning of The Atonement, W Cleon Skousen (born Jan 20, 1913) who was taught by Apostle John A. Widtsoe

2 Nephi 2:14  And now, my sons, I speak unto you these things for your profit and learning; for there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to be acted upon.

D&C 121:  29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be.

30 All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.

D&C 93:33  For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy;

Journal of Discourses, Volume 7 Page 2, by President Brigham Young

If people understood true philosophy --- eternal philosophy, they would understand that there is an eternity of matter. Astronomers estimate that between us and the nearest fixed star there is matter enough to organize millions of earths like this.  There is an eternity of matter, and it is all acted upon and filled with a portion of divinity.  Matter is to exist; it cannot be annihilated.  Eternity is without bounds, and is filled with matter; and there is not such place as empty space.  And matter is capacitated to receive intelligence.

D&C 121:  33 For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy;

36 The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth. 

D&C 29:36  And it came to pass that Adam, being tempted of the devil—for, behold, the devil was before Adam, for he rebelled against me, saying, Give me thine honor, which is my power; and also a third part of the hosts of heaven turned he away from me because of their agency;

(Honor and Priesthood are the power of God.  God's power can be and has been given.  An example is where Christ gave the apostles power: Matthew 10 in verse 1. And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

D&C 121: 46 The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means, it shall flow unto thee forever and ever.

"Free will (or free agency) is the underpinning for everything in the universe and for all the eternities" and is more than a philosophical assertion that suggests the concept of free choice is the fundamental driving force behind all existence, across time and space.  It implies that even the universe itself operates based on the potential for independent decision-making.

When I think of all the Lord has done for all His children even from before the earth was created, and in the showing to Adam, Abraham, Moses, and others His works,  I feel much as Moses and the Psalmist expressed, “Man is nothing”, and “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” The Lord told Moses, “Behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” 

Note:  My thoughts:  Intelengence acts and elements are acted upon.  Science is now only beginning to talk about matter that is acted upon but nothing about what it is that acts upon it.

(A Question)  What is the relationship between Priesthood, Honor, and Power?