As Mark Twain once said, “First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.” I am not an expert in this area, and don’t pretend to be. Nor, to be honest, do I have any desire to be. However, there are two points where you appear mistaken. One, time dilation is a known scientific process. For instance, if you’re in the vicinity of a black hole it is currently understood that time goes more slowly--in some cases the deviation can be extreme, in the vicinity of 1 hour = 7 years, depending upon your precise location. Second, and directly, related, contrary to what you state, the rate of “time” is by no means constant throughout the universe. As a quick and easy example, the rate of time on earth is slower than the rate of time on the GPS satellites in orbit.
In order to "go back in time" you would have to exceed the Speed of Light, which modern physics considers impossible. I have no interest in quarreling with this belief, although it is almost certainly wrong as well. (Most if not all scientific theories are eventually falsified, depending upon the rate of progress). More relevantly, the passage of time on earth is relative, as influenced by the earth's rotational speed, which varies. Speeding up the earth's rotation would cause time to actually pass faster, while those living on the earth would not necessarily notice the difference. A year would still seem like a year.
That is the extent of my interest in this topic. More relevant to the point I was originally trying to make is that time is a construct. It was created by God, who exists outside of time. Thus, heaven and hell are eternal in that they too exist outside of time. If you grasp that distinction, then perhaps you can overlook my lack of scientific rigor. Thank you!
Happy New Year.
As Mark Twain once said, “First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.” I am not an expert in this area, and don’t pretend to be. Nor, to be honest, do I have any desire to be. However, there are two points where you appear mistaken. One, time dilation is a known scientific process. For instance, if you’re in the vicinity of a black hole it is currently understood that time goes more slowly--in some cases the deviation can be extreme, in the vicinity of 1 hour = 7 years, depending upon your precise location. Second, and directly, related, contrary to what you state, the rate of “time” is by no means constant throughout the universe. As a quick and easy example, the rate of time on earth is slower than the rate of time on the GPS satellites in orbit.
In order to "go back in time" you would have to exceed the Speed of Light, which modern physics considers impossible. I have no interest in quarreling with this belief, although it is almost certainly wrong as well. (Most if not all scientific theories are eventually falsified, depending upon the rate of progress). More relevantly, the passage of time on earth is relative, as influenced by the earth's rotational speed, which varies. Speeding up the earth's rotation would cause time to actually pass faster, while those living on the earth would not necessarily notice the difference. A year would still seem like a year.
That is the extent of my interest in this topic. More relevant to the point I was originally trying to make is that time is a construct. It was created by God, who exists outside of time. Thus, heaven and hell are eternal in that they too exist outside of time. If you grasp that distinction, then perhaps you can overlook my lack of scientific rigor. Thank you! Happy New Year.