In an episode that aired last Sunday in the US and will air today in Israel, Neil deGrasse describes what the universe would look like if it were 6,000 years old by illustrating the distance between us and the Cancer Nebula
The writers of the Cosmos series, led by Seth MacFarlane, the producer Van Droyan, the widow of the late Carl Sagan, continue to sting the American conservatives on their home turf.
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As we reported to you in the last few weeks since the 2014 edition of the Cosmos series aired, the creationists began to demand equal air time within the episodes of the series to discuss their beliefs about the origin of the universe. However, Tyson and series producer Seth McFarlane (Family Guy) made it clear that there will be no debate because there is no debate in science. "You don't talk about the round earth with NASA and then offer to give equal time to people who claim the earth is flat," Tyson said. McFellar said he hopes the series will defeat what he calls "junk science" entering the political debate.
In an episode that aired in the US last Sunday and will be aired in Israel tomorrow, Tyson points to the Cancer Ephilith, which is 6,500 light-years away from Earth and proved that our universe is much older than a few thousand years.
"If the universe was only 6,500 years old, how could we see light from any object far from the Cancer Nebula"? Tyson asked during the episode. "They won't be able to see, there just wasn't enough time for light to reach Earth from anywhere over 6,500 light years away in any direction. That's barely enough time for light to travel through a small part of the Milky Way galaxy.”
"This means that to believe that the universe is young and only 6-7 thousand years old, is to ignore the light coming from most of the galaxy." Tyson already attacked the young earth concept in the first episode when he showed a beautiful educational tool explaining that if the 13.8 billion years of the universe were compressed into one year, the Big Bang would have erupted on Binary 1 and the present would be at midnight on December 31st, and all of human history, from the systems people And to the Pyramids would occupy the last 14 seconds of this year, something that fans of the series define as amazing (although it already appeared in Carl Sagan's original series).
The entire chapter, by the way, deals with light and explains the discoveries of William Herschel, Farday, Einstein and others, making a journey to the event horizon of a black hole and the early universe.
More of the topic in Hayadan:
- Science deniers were angry about the second episode of the Cosmos series which dealt with evolution
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, presenter of the Cosmos series: "If Sagan were alive, he would be most surprised by the fact that we still have to argue that science is important to society."
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It was a great episode.
The real science
On what basis do you claim what you said? Do you have more cosmology knowledge than Tyson?
The producer of the series is called Seth MacFarlane (Seth MacFarlane) and not as written
real idiot
It's not that clear, are you trying to make a claim about the science?
I saw the first episodes, too American, I didn't like it
"The stupidity of science comes from the assumption that everything happened by itself without the intervention of a deliberate hand"
No, this is not the stupidity of science, the real stupidity is to assume that if you have no explanation for a certain natural phenomenon, then automatically the explanation for it is the intervention of an intelligent being.
When you don't understand a certain phenomenon, you should investigate it and find out the real reasons that cause it, not make up stupid stories and say that this is the real explanation.
the real science,
What does "say" mean? "Said" according to the important principle of "that's how it seems to me"?
You probably won't, but you are welcome to read Zvi's answer
https://www.hayadan.org.il/marc-kamionkowski-interview-on-inlation-0104143/#comments
Tyson stings himself, the stupidity of science comes from the assumption that everything happened by itself without the intervention of a deliberate hand. The problem with this assumption is that the expansion of the universe is supposed to slow down over time, but in practice the opposite happens, the expansion of the universe actually accelerates.
Asking to be corrected.
From 13.8 million - to 13.8 billion years.