Joshua's Long Day

What kind of stuff in the atmosphere that caused this refraction? He is asking how this was done. Do you have a clue to how big our planet is? No comet's tail can take away such an enormous rotational momentum. If the spin is altered, where the heck did the energy go? Again, this requires an enormous amount of kinetic energy that would have destroyed all civilization on earth... and possibly most life on earth. This is probably the best answer to the main question.This reminds me of the movie "The Core". I was probably the only person in the theater that had this question in mind, "if the core stopped spinning, where the heck did all the energy go?"

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Not necessarily a useless argument. As far as I can see, the "goddunit" argument, from the perspective of the fundies, is probably the strongest and most unshakable. In fact, the entire OT revolves around god snapping his fingers to get something miraculous happen.If the fundies are forced to throw the "goddunit" argument out the window, there's nothing else they can say about it. I'm not trying to disprove this reasoning, but it is kinda pointless to put it here. Actually, I don't see a strong connection between the "goddunit" argument and the postulate that you just presented. Well, I get the impression from the OT that god is bounded by the linearness of time just like we are. But that defeats the purpose of all the so-called moral teachings of the bible, though. You are trying to impose the scientific method onto the fundies' method. Good luck getting your point across. Thank goodness some people are not coherent enough to make any argument on the issue. The answer to solve such a problem of rotational momentum is "goddunit". I propose a different theory on the matter.Joshua and everyone else at the time were crackpots. Their sense of time was altered by whatever substance they were using... probably angel dust.******************************************************The way I see it, "goddunit" is probably the best answer to the question.There is another possibility. Check this explanation for a possible way a planet can stop rotating for a while. Check this explanation on how a planet could start rotating again.Although none of that make any sense to me, it's the next best thing to "goddunit".

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Hey gbunty, could you please use the reply button with the red arrow? It makes our lives much better. Thanx.

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I actually have a shirt that has that picture on there.

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Good idea Consider it done.

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Sorry sfripp, but your post has some of the most bullpoop ideas about physics I have ever seen.There are only 2 possible ways to cause planet Earth to stop rotating and start rotating again. However, both ways would cause the end of all life on Earth as we know it.

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This is a pretty bold statement.Could you explain to us how your explanation solves the following problems?(1) At the equator, the velocity of any one point is about a thousand miles per hour. How was it that Joshua didn't fly off into the sky in a parabolic motion?(2) Where the hell did all of the Earth's rotational momentum go? Where the hell did all the kinetic energy go?(3) How come not a single other culture ever recorded such an event? You'd think that a longer-than-24-hour-day would be noticed by everyone around the globe at the time. How come the Chinese never recorded any such event?

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We are the bog. Resistance is voltage over current. For goodness's sake, please vote Democrat this November!

Don't worry about it. My field is physics and biology. I don't know much about bible stuff, history, or geology. This is why you will almost never see me debate in one of these discussions. After someone gave the classic "goddunit" as an answer, I pretty much stopped responding, since I know math and physics not miracles. Two seperate philosophy/theology professors assured me that the so-called recurring theme of ultra long day among various cultures is a myth. The myth was cooked up by similar themes among myths in other cultures.For example, and I know this is off-topic, but I just want to give an analogy. Why do we find stories about a great flood among just about every culture in the world? Some might say that this is proof of Noah's flood. Others, such as myself, simply see it as a coincidence.Flood has always been a big deal to people's lives. In the old days, a flood in the local region might as well be percieved as the world's been flooded, since people didn't have a clue the world was much bigger than their back yards. Since flood's always been a big deal, you'd find these various versions of some kind of great flood and voila you have Noah's flood.Now, I am only human and I simply don't have time to do much research into this. No, I do not like fishing around the internet and claim that I've done proper research on the matter. However, I am certain that it is very easy to cook up a myth/mystery. All you have to do is leave out certain details, exaggerate on irrelavent things, and add some color to the story.Heck, I can probably cook up a myth that I have magic powers. If people were willing to die for Jim Jones, I don't see why I can't start a cult of my own. Idealistically, this is true. However, in reality if something is real it must stand up to the test. There's an old chinese saying: real gold ain't afraid of fire. This is why I tend not to get into one of these debates. I can give you mathematical formulas that prove the impossibility of such an event. However, I can't give you miraculous formulas because I don't know any.I'll tell you what, you get god to give some amputated people back their limbs and I'll start investigating further into the reality of miracles. According to my handy dandy Webster's New World Dictionary, fact is "a thing that has actually happened or that is really true; thing that has been or is... the state of things as they are; reality; actuality; truth... some ththing said to have ocrcurred or supposed to be true..."So, would you mind establishing the event as "fact" first before refering to it as "fact"?Oh yeah, light only takes about 8 minutes to get here from the sun, not 8 hours. I am also glad that you decided to jump in. I was hoping for some fresh meat... just joking. Welcome! I'm sure there are some here who would like to tear you to shreds. Be assured that I'm not one of them. All I want to do is grab your throa... I mean shake your hand.

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We are the bog. Resistance is voltage over current. For goodness's sake, please vote Democrat this November!

Huh?

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We are the bog. Resistance is voltage over current. For goodness's sake, please vote Democrat this November!

Actually, I don't. In fact, I'd prefer people use this answer rather than coming up with pseudo-scientific stuff to try to explain it.

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We are the bog. Resistance is voltage over current. For goodness's sake, please vote Democrat this November!