Stars and a 6000 year old universe.

Julien Barbour as well as a number of other leading physicists suggest that time and maybe even space are illusionary. When you use the term lightyear it involves time. But if time isn't what we think it is, all of our measurements of time and distance become meaningless. (I think ). From what I read it often seems that the more that is learned, the more we learn how much we don't know.I'm not trying to argue here for YEC I'm just saying that it seems to me that there aren't easy clear cut answers.This is Julien Barbour's web site with is hypothesis on time.Julian BarbourThis message has been edited by GDR, 06-27-2005 09:18 PM

We had a discussion about this on another thread, and as near as I can tell there are problems with triangulation as well because we can't measure with certainty how much light is being bent by gravity in 4 dimensional space. How can you measure distances with trigonometry when you don't have straight lines and you can't be certain of just how curved the sides of the triangle are?I only have the vaguest of ideas what I'm talking about here, so please be gentle.

Is it possible that dark matter could form this devious gravitational field?I guess my thinking goes something like this. I started reading various books. Hawking, Geeene, Schroeder and a couple of others. Basically I found that virtually nothing that I assumed about matter and the universe were what I had thought. Time isn't a constant, matter is really all about energy, everything is not only atoms but all atoms are particles, particles behave incredibly strangely, this whole universe is maybe a brane or a matrix or a hologram, and so on.With all these various observations and theories, including again the theory that space and time are illusionary, it just seems to me that maybe all of these measurements that we make in space aren't what they seem either.I realize that there are no answers to this but I get the feeling that for those who really do understand astro physics that it is likely even more confusing because it appears to me that there aren't any absolutes anymore.Sorry I got off on a tangent.