I Can’t Understand All This – Maybe You Struggle Too Series

I CAN’T UNDERSTAND ALL THIS – MAYBE YOU STRUGGLE TOO

We live in an amazing world, and when you study it, you are astonished at the complexity and the unbelievable marvels of the natural world. Not only that, but the infinitesimal brain of man has no way of understanding the universe. I love to study the universe (astronomy) and our natural world, and that causes you to wonder how it can all be. Firstly, where did it all come from? Secondly, how can it all operate the way it does?

OUR SUN

The sun lies at the heart of the solar system, where it is by far the largest object. 99.8% of the solar system's mass is occupied by the sun, which is so large that about one million Earths could fit inside the sun.

The temperature at the surface of the sun is about 5,500 degrees Celsius (10,000 degrees Fahrenheit), while temperatures in the core reach more than 15 million C (27 million F), driven by nuclear reactions. One would need to explode 100 billion tons of dynamite every second to match the energy produced by the sun, according to NASA. If we take time just to absorb that, it is mind-blowing for the human intelligence.

The sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way (our own galaxy). The sun is relatively young compared with ages of other stars. NASA has said this, “The Sun does not "burn", like we think of logs in a fire, or paper burning. The Sun glows because it is a very big ball of gas, and a process called nuclear fusion is taking place in its core. Nuclear fusion occurs when one proton smashes into another proton so hard that they stick together . . . and release some energy as well. This energy then heats up the other materials (other protons and electrons and such) nearby. This heating eventually grows out from the center (or core) of the star to the outside, finally leaving the surface and radiating out into space to be the heat and light we know stars emit.”

People, including scientists, sometimes say that the Sun "burns hydrogen" to make it glow. But that is just a figure of speech. Hydrogen really doesn't burn in the sun; it fuses, into helium, so no oxygen is required! By fusion, the sun "burns" about 5.64 million tons of hydrogen per second, resulting in 5.59 million tons of helium. We all know how light hydrogen is, so 5.64 million tons is enormous – staggering – incomprehensible! I can’t understand it.

LET’S TRANSLATE THAT TO THE UNIVERSE

Our own sun burns/changes 5 million tons of hydrogen every second into helium and produces incredible light and energy.

This is from the European Space Agency – [[“There are something like 10 (won't show in notation) to 10 (won't show in notation) stars in our Galaxy (10 to the eleventh or twelfth power), and there are perhaps something like 10 (won't show in notation) or 10 (won't show in notation) galaxies (10 to the eleventh or twelfth power). With this simple calculation you get something like 10 (won't show in notation) to 10(won't show in notation) stars in the Universe (10 to the twenty-second to twenty-fourth power). This is only a rough number, as obviously not all galaxies are the same, just like on a beach the depth of sand will not be the same in different places.”]] This is one estimate. I have seen the number as high as 10 (won't show in notation) 10 to the 27th power, but what are a few billion stars when we talk these figures?

Our sun is about an average sized sun, but let’s see how much hydrogen is being “burnt” every second in the entire universe. It is 5 million tons multiplied by 10 (won't show in notation) to 10 (won't show in notation) (10 to the twenty-second to twenty-fourth power) stars.

AND THIS IS HOW MUCH HYDROGEN IS BEING BURNT/CHANGED EVERY SECOND:

5 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons every second in God’s universe.

I can not take it in, not one little bit. Where did such a mass of hydrogen come from? Young people told me once in a forum that everything just made itself. That is like, “Take God out of the equation and it just happens all by itself”. What is wrong with an education system that dismisses God and claims that all matter just happens to be there all by itself, or worse still, it made itself? That is the position of the fool David Attenborough. (I am correct to call him a fool, for he is a deep-seated atheist and God says atheists are fools ({{Psalms 14:1 “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt.”}}).