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Creation Day 2: The Stretching of the Raqia
My second 1905 paper contained experimental proof of the existence of atoms. Electron microscopes had yet to be invented so I got the idea from a 1827 experiment by an English botanist named Robert Brown who noticed that pollen seeds suspended in still water moved in an irregular "swarming" motion. I reasoned that if tiny but visible particles were suspended in a liquid, the invisible atoms in the liquid would bombard the suspended particles and cause them to jiggle. I was right!
My third 1905 paper was also my favorite. I confronted the apparent contradiction between two principal theories of physics: Isaac Newton’s concepts of absolute space and time and James Clerk Maxwell’s idea that the speed of light was always constant. To do this, I introduced my own special theory of relativity that the speed of light is the only law of physics that never changes. Everything in the universe can change; time, distance, mass, but the speed of light always remains the same at 186,000 miles/second or 300,000 km/second. My theory of relativity proves that space and time are interwoven into a single continuum throughout the universe known as space-time. Events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another. Based solely on my theory of relativity, Professor Gerald Schroeder will explain - later in this chapter - how God created everything in the universe in 6 literal 24 hour days as recorded in Genesis 1, and also, in 13.8 billion years as proven by science.
My fourth and final 1905 paper (already covered in chapter 3) concerned the fundamental relationship between mass and energy summed up in my most famous equation, E=mc².
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