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The Relative Nature of Time
T he theory of relativity has led some scientists to what seems to the average man s ome r a t h e r far fetched conclusions. One of these is that speeds close to the speed of light cause space and time to contract. If these conclusions are true, it would mean that a clock in a space ship traveling close to the speed of light would run slower than one on the earth. Not only will the clock run slower but the crew will age at a slower rate compared to those at home. A recent Scientific American article indicated that some relativists had estimated “ That if a space ship trav eled to the nearest star and back in 17 years, its clocks would show an elapsed time of only 14.5 years, and its occupants would have aged by only this amount.” Now these are startling conclusions and are not held by all scientists. In fact, they have been rather heatedly discussed. Such discussion has led the scientist to look for some way to determine experi mentally whether or not time can be compressed in this manner. Recently Dr. Crawford of Univer sity of California obtained some evi dence that bears on this question. This evidence was obtained from studies of a sub-atomic particle called a mu meson which disintegrates when at rest in less than two-mil lionths of a second. These sub-atomic particles can be thought of as very minute clocks which measure time in millionths of a second. Some of
these mu mesons are formed by the collision of cosmic rays with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere high above the earth’s surface. Many of them that are formed in this manner travel for more than 10 miles before they disintegrate. If while traveling this distance, they were disintegrating at their at-rest rate, they would only get less than one-third of a mile before disintegrating. The conclusion is that they can travel farther because their rate of disintegration is slowed as a result of their high speed and they can therefore get farther before dis integrating. This evidence would tend to support the idea that speed will cause time to contract. This evidence emphasizes the rela tive nature of time as well as the fact that time is somehow intimately asso ciated with the physical universe. In the light of these discoveries, it is of more than passing interest to the Christian that the God of the Bible does not appear to be limited by time. In fact, it is strongly implied that the Creator is not limited by time in exactly the same way that He is not bound by the physical uni verse. This is to be expected because of the intimate relationship between time and matter. Since God is outside of both, it is easy to see why “ . . . one day is with the Lord as a thou sand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Pet. 3:8). To a timeless God every moment of time, past, present and future, is now. END.
I n Seoul, Korea this month the Oriental Missionary Society (with headquarters in Los Angeles) is celebrating its 50th anni versary in that land. As a result o f its work there the society today has nearly 500 churches, 310 students in the Seoul Bible Seminary, 55 trained chaplains in the Korean Army, 2,500 children in its 19 orphanages, 700 lepers in its two leper colonies, three widows’ homes, two babies’ homes and is train ing 14,000 children in weekday classes in the churches.
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