Hubble in Space

I have thought often of this forthcoming God. He is like light, ever coming, ever emitting himself. The Hubble Space telescope, recently worked on by several astronauts so that it will continue producing photographs for another five years, has given us glimpses of light coming across many billions of miles to our eyes. A new telescope will be put into space at the end of Hubble‘s usefulness, and it will be placed one million miles from earth. Its visual clarity should be greatly improved over even the Hubble’s, since its placement will be so far from earth’s distorting atmosphere. One scientist said the taking of these photographs through telescopes is like time travel, and the telescopes are like the time travelers. It is expected that light, billions of years old, will be recorded by the new space telescope. That light, which has traveled at 186,000 miles per second for these billions of years, is light that was emitted near the what is thought to be the origin of the universe. Perhaps light from the original theoretical “big bang” will be measured. Needless to say, these ideas are mind-boggling. Much of what we see in space may not even be there any more, but it is useless to conjecture, since it is impossible to apprehend what is happening so many light years away. It is as if space must bend back on itself in order to accommodate these huge expanses of time and distance. Perhaps what happened 6 billion years ago is not so far away from us in time and space., and we are fooled into thinking that what occurred billions of years ago is occurring at this time also. Kind of reminds you of heaven… everything is in the now… time is no longer existent. It is suspended in light.