Herschel Detects Galactic Sources for the Infrared Background

During October 2009, the largest space telescope (Herschel) spent 30 hours gathering light from a small area of dark sky in Ursa Major. The area is part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North (GOODS-N). Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, XMM-Newton and other telescopes previously made deep observations of this same area. Herschel took this image with its Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) that is sensitive to far infrared from 60 to 210 micrometers. In astronomical pictures, the colors represent light frequencies relative to the instrument's spectral range. The reddest colors represent the farthest infrared light. Notice how many of these ancient infrared galaxies are arranged in equally spaced chains. Sometimes a reddish galaxy is bracketed by two bluish ones or we see blue jets or blue galaxy chains. Only space telescopes can detect far infrared since these frequencies are absorbed by the atmosphere. More than 15 years ago, NASA's COBE spacecraft recorded a faint infrared background from all directions. COBE was not able to resolve the sources, so scientists called it the Far Infrared background (FIR) or the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB). Later the Spitzer space telescope resolved about 70% of the FIR / CIB as emanating from individual infrared galaxies. After only 30 hours of light gathering, PACS confirmed Spitzer's finding. It resolved about 60 percent of the infrared background into individual primordial galaxies. PACS photo credit: ESA, Herschel and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

I predict that longer exposures from Herschel (and other space and terrestrial telescopes) will resolve the cosmic infrared and even the microwave backgrounds. They will find that individual galaxies shone, long ago, all the way down into microwave frequencies. This will eventually overthrow the prevailing theories that the vacuum of space stretches light or that clouds of primordial dust are changing the light frequencies. How could ancient galaxies shine at such low frequencies? Ancient atoms were evidently tiny scale models of modern atoms. The shorter the distance an electron falls within an atom, the longer the emitted wavelength. Ancient galaxies shone at tiny fractions of the light frequencies of modern atoms. The proof that atoms change relationally throughout cosmic history is based on non mathematical grounds.

(1) We see how the galaxies formed from tiny naked globs. We observe how the stars came out, accelerated out, as individual galaxies grew from the insides outward. We observe, at many ranges, how atomic light-clocks and the galactic orbits both accelerated together. Billions of individual galaxies grew into huge, local, growth spirals. This is not possible unless the properties of matter are emerging, changing relationally.

(2) A great global expansion seam keeps on spreading out new seafloor while the continents remain rooted in place. The basaltic rocks around the global expansion seam are the youngest earth-rocks. The continents fit together only on a minuscule globe. The visible evidence for subduction is missing, since the 'subduction' trenches have undisturbed, layered sediments. The earth cannot continually grow unless the properties of matter are emerging, changing relationally.

Visible cosmic history confirms biblical physics, not science. The principle for biblical physics is that everything in creation is changing, Greek phthora. The Bible states that the heavens spread out in unbroken continuity. It also states that the earth spreads out in unbroken continuity. It even states where the earth continually spreads out: above the waters. Think about it.