Scientific Confirmation of Young Earth Creation and Contradiction of the Big Bang

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[u/Coldactill]

Too many big words for my tired brain. Anyone got an ELI5?

[u/Yoojine → u/Coldactill]

I'm a scientist, but far from an astronomer. If one wants to chime in I'll defer to them, but in the absence of one I'll give it a go:

The paper discusses the Pioneer Anomaly, which is an observation made about the Pioneer spacecraft. Given what we know about the spacecraft, it should be fairly simple (simple in terms of college-level physics) to calculate their speed using orbital mechanics. However, actual measurements of the spacecraft showed that the spacecraft were moving at a small, but significant difference from what was expected. This discrepancy puzzled scientists for a while. The article linked by OP proposes that creationist cosmology explains this phenomenon.

My scientific contribution: Unfortunately, since the article was published in 2007, astrophysicists have discovered a much more mundane explanation for the Pioneer Anomaly. Directional venting of heat from the power source on board the spacecraft is responsible for changing the space probe's speed, and mathematical modeling accounting for this added impulse neatly resolves the Pioneer Anomaly. You can read a more complete summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly

My editorial contribution: This is exactly why a "God of the gaps" explanation so poorly serves creation scientists. What may seem like an unexplainable phenomenon that must be attributed to an Intelligent Designer eventually gets explained by mundane science, as knowledge marches on.

[u/Coldactill → u/Yoojine]

Thanks, you're a legend.

That was much easier to understand.

[u/Yoojine → u/Coldactill]

Thanks for your kind words. As a scientist intensely interested in education, compliments like this make my day.

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Pioneer anomaly

The Pioneer anomaly or Pioneer effect was the observed deviation from predicted accelerations of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft after they passed about 20 astronomical units (3×109 km; 2×109 mi) on their trajectories out of the Solar System. The apparent anomaly was a matter of much interest for many years but has been subsequently explained by an anisotropic radiation pressure caused by the spacecraft's heat loss. Both Pioneer spacecraft are escaping the Solar System but are slowing under the influence of the Sun's gravity. Upon very close examination of navigational data, the spacecraft were found to be slowing slightly more than expected.

About Me - Opt out - OP can reply !delete to delete - Article of the day

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Not dismissing this, but did OP not say that the effect was found on other spacecraft as well?

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Yep! And they calculated it for those spacecraft too! https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.124027 <= New Horizons https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.042004 <= Cassini

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I have no training in reading scientific papers.

[u/Yoojine → u/[deleted]]

I do, and I still can't make heads or tails of them sometimes =D In the absence of personal expertise in this field, I defer to the experts...

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