[Wintaka]

John:

John Whitworth asked:

How does that work, Wintaka?

The age of the suns was measured by their colour, which changed depending on their speed of expansion. The implication was that these suns did exist before the Big Bang, such that their slower speed could be seen as similar to a body pushed by an explosion as opposed to the speed of its shrapnel.

The scientific community's "solution" was to change the method of measurement, such that these suns were subsequently regarded as the same age as everything else.

Incidentally and FWIW, like this one, a line from another verse, "time is just motion", also caught the attention of an Oxford undergraduate student, who promised to "do the math" but, as far as I know, never followed up.

Best regards,

Colin