[QUOTE="wollery']How about addressing the fact that the distance you use for the Earth-Moon separation being wrong?[/QUOTE]
Obviously, his earth-moon separation is wrong because an angel measured it
with a stick.
In other words, the FURLONG wasn’t just any length of measure but the divine measuring stick, or GOLDEN REED reed used by the Lord's angel.
But let's be duly impressed, because it's a
golden stick. Ooooh.
Our measurements of the moon's distance come from large-baseline interferometry using superconducting quantum measuring devices; meanwhile the Angel's just floating out there in space, putting its divine finger on the spot of empty space at the end of the
stick, moving the
stick so its other end is lined up with its finger (which it tries very hard to keep very still), and counting, "341,216..."
Clearly the angel needs
us to enlighten
it... not too much at once, of course, because by definition an omniscient being
cannot learn anything anyhow, but perhaps it might be able to move on from a
stick to maybe a tape measure, and eventually, in another millennium perhaps, into the
very basic trigonometry that surveyors use every day. (Don't tell the angel about GPS; it's likely to get violent and we can't have that because after all, it's
armed with a stick.)
Wake up, heaven and earth: we've moved on from sticks. Just like the stupid
golden ratio and the Fibonacci series, which I learned about in
fourth grade, after which I soon
moved on and learned about exponents, logarithms, trigonometry, vectors, linear algebra, derivatives, integrals, set theory, computing theory... DJJ, can you enlighten us about the mystic properties of the hyperbolic cosine function or the divine significance of Stokes' Theorem, or did the all angels who measure things with
sticks drop out of college in the year 1600? You want to talk about transcendental numbers, tell us about how e
ix = cos x + i sin x gives us the keys to the holy complex plane where no ox ever plowed. (BTW, we don't plow an acre a day with oxen any more, have you heard?) Show us where the number 792 arises in the Schroedinger Wave Equation that describes the shapes of the bonds that hold atoms together. Show us the closed-form solution to the Newtonian three-body problem that your insight into the number of slug-barrel-furlongs-per-leap-year-hectare-fortnight in a kilowatt-hour leads you to. Show us what the dimensions of the Great Pyramid tell you about P = NP. C'mon, don't hold back. Give us the good stuff.
Respectfully (though it might not seem so, the above actually is, in a deeper way that you might someday understand),
Myriad