Dale offers the prompt, “lights, camera, action”, for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
My phone is my camera.
The sun rising and setting in the clouds on various days brings both the lights and the action. In these parts the climate changes daily while remaining pretty much the same year after year.
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If the universe began with an explosion, how did all of that exploded stuff come back together again to form even one star? If a star should explode, how would the mess it made clean itself up to become another star?
Not even gravity can put those explosions back together again.
There’s more truth in the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty than there is in the mythology of modern cosmology with its big bangs and stars forming from cosmic dust clouds.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again.
One of the blessings of our universe is that things don’t naturally compress through gravity to the point that a thermonuclear reaction starts. If they did, the waters over the earth (along with all of the land) would have collapsed to the center of what once was the earth long ago.
The reason stuff like that doesn’t happen is because of hydrostatic equilibrium. Gravity draws things together. Sure, but an opposing outward pressure keeps stuff from collapsing beyond an equilibrium point. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be here.
Some claim that if there were a multiverse, an infinite number of universes all starting with explosions, then at least one of them would have to look like ours. Wrong. Blow things up an infinite number of times (or more) and none of those explosions, because of hydrostatic equilibrium, would turn into a universe with planets and stars.
Every one of those exploded verses in that multiverse would remain a mess forever.
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While going to photograph a sunrise, I noticed a door on the beach.
It was small and perhaps not quite a “door”.
But I’m glad it was there to give me an excuse to post something.
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Linked to Thursday Doors.
The sun is setting westward deep
and Venus shining soon will sleep.
My trust’s in Him and He will keep
my heart in perfect peace.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “wisdom” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. It is wise to trust in Him. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Isaiah 26:3 KJV – Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
At the end of the day in Tampa, Greg went to Clearwater Beach (latitude 27.9772, longitude -82.8279) to watch the sun set. Earlier that day he saw the sun rise on Miami Beach.
As the sun began its entry below the waters of the Gulf of America, Greg quickly phoned his brother on a boat in the Indian Ocean near the Cocos Islands (latitude -27.9772, longitude 97.1721) to ask him, “Where do you see the sun in the sky where you are right now?”
“Right now it’s rising in the east,” his brother said.
“How is it possible that I’m seeing the sun half-way below the horizon in the west while you’re watching it rise half-way above the horizon in the east?”
“That’s what you get when you talk to someone on the opposite side of a globe.”
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Denise offers the prompt word “entry” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.
There’s not much to this story except that I have some friends who have been trying to convince me that the earth is flat. This is sort of a rebuttal to their argument.
I was also looking for an opportunity to use the new name, Gulf of America. It took a minute to make the AI tool in the Brave browser admit that the correct name is the Gulf of America considering my current location in Florida although it tried to convince me otherwise.
Dale offers the prompt “first hints of spring” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.
We sow to the Spirit, not to the flesh.
We reap of the Spirit life everlasting.
Galatians 6:7 KJV – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Don’t hesitate to do what you
have heard that you’re supposed to do.
Get all that done. The sky’s still blue
and you’re still in His rest.
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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “opportunity” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.
Hebrews 4:9-11 KJV – 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 