God Starts The Clock
And God said,"Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
(Genesis 1:3-5)
The second thing that God created was energy in the form of light. God created light/energy and imparted it into the material universe. The atomic structure of matter, with its delicate balance between mass and energy, electrons, photons, and sub-atomic particles began to take shape. Matter combined with energy and formed the elements. We cannot begin to imagine the amount of light/energy that God packed into matter. Nuclear reactions can produce catastrophic amounts of energy.
In creating light/energy, there is to be a cycle, alternating light and darkness. The universe is full of cyclical events. The behavior of mass and energy would follow the basic cycles established by the Creator of mass and energy. It would not be random and unpredictable. There would be order in the universe, and patterns discernible to the intelligent, among the most basic, being the alternating pattern of day and night. With the creation of light/energy, God started the clock. He defined the durations of day and night, from which we derive all other units of time.
Today, the international standard for time, the second, is kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST developed a clock which is based on the natural resonance frequency of the cesium atom, (9,192,631,770 Hz) which is used in the definition of 1 second. The cesium clock is so accurate and the uncertainty is so small that it would neither gain nor lose a second in more than 60 million years!
On the first day, the first cesium atoms resonated the equivalent of 86,400 seconds before God spoke again.
(Genesis 1:3-5)
The second thing that God created was energy in the form of light. God created light/energy and imparted it into the material universe. The atomic structure of matter, with its delicate balance between mass and energy, electrons, photons, and sub-atomic particles began to take shape. Matter combined with energy and formed the elements. We cannot begin to imagine the amount of light/energy that God packed into matter. Nuclear reactions can produce catastrophic amounts of energy.
In creating light/energy, there is to be a cycle, alternating light and darkness. The universe is full of cyclical events. The behavior of mass and energy would follow the basic cycles established by the Creator of mass and energy. It would not be random and unpredictable. There would be order in the universe, and patterns discernible to the intelligent, among the most basic, being the alternating pattern of day and night. With the creation of light/energy, God started the clock. He defined the durations of day and night, from which we derive all other units of time.
Today, the international standard for time, the second, is kept by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST developed a clock which is based on the natural resonance frequency of the cesium atom, (9,192,631,770 Hz) which is used in the definition of 1 second. The cesium clock is so accurate and the uncertainty is so small that it would neither gain nor lose a second in more than 60 million years!
On the first day, the first cesium atoms resonated the equivalent of 86,400 seconds before God spoke again.
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