That really depends on your definition of god. — Hermeticus
There are those who worship loneliness, I’m not one of them. In this age of fibreglass I’m searching for a gem. The crystal ball upon the wall hasn’t shown me nothing yet; I’ve paid the price of solitude, but at least I’m out of debt. — Bob Dylan, Dirge.
it can be known by use of one's faculty of Intuition. — 1 Brother James
And an "object" can be destroyed, it is Energy that is not destroyed. — 1 Brother James
God is Neutral Spiritual Energy, which in the Bible is said to be a "void". — 1 Brother James
Could this not fulfill Option one - the creator. If you think about it - if the only thing energy can do is change (it’s the only way it proves it’s existence - ie. to act or do something) and the singularity is a singular energetic state at the beginning of time. The only way a singularity can change is to create new phenomena from itself — Benj96
I don't think so. Energy is always working, no? But God spends eternity not doing anything. — bert1
I don't think so. Energy is always working, no? But God spends eternity not doing anything. — bert1
Photons are packets of energy. The energy in a photon is directly proportional to its frequency; E=hf. Given that, here's my question. When a photon travels large distances on a cosmic scale and red shifts, where does that energy the photon originally had go?And of course if you refer to everything as energy then truly it cannot be destroyed just converted to heat or light or sound or maybe a different form of matter. — Benj96
When a photon travels large distances on a cosmic scale and red shifts, where does that energy the photon originally had go? — InPitzotl
When a photon travels large distances on a cosmic scale and red shifts, where does that energy the photon originally had go? — InPitzotl
I think you're emphasizing the wrong thing. The significance of the photon traveling large distances on a cosmic scale is not that the distance is large per se, but rather that there is a red shift due to the expansion of space, as you note here:The amount of energy it has isn’t related to the distance it travels. — Benj96
But now we get to this:But the Hubble constant is based on the idea that the wavelength (distance) per unit time is increasing because the space that must be travelled through per unit time is expanding. — Benj96
Why not? What's wrong with this argument that the energy of the photon must be lost?: E=hf. h is a constant. f is going down. Therefore, E is going down.What I’m saying is I don’t think redshift (decrease in frequency) of a photon necessarily means the energy of the photon must be lost. — Benj96
This just implies that the lost energy isn't going to particles that the photon interacts with. Okay. So where is it going?Well I know a photon cannot lose energy unless it interacts with a particle. — Benj96
Thanks — Benj96
must — InPitzotl
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