It didn’t decelerate to a stop. It just stopped, period. Since the time it came into being, it never did. But on that very day, it ceased spinning for one complete axial rotation. Immediately, Sun sent rays of messengers to the east to notify Dusk that he must delay his appearing for twenty-four hours, and Dusk in turn sent beams of darkness to Moon, notifying her to cease spinning on its own axis. Moon slumped back onto her chair with a relieving sigh, and mirrored a few of Sun’s ray of messengers to Dawn in the far west. “Rest a while,” was the message, “for Earth has ceased spinning altogether, and it won’t be until twenty-four hours later that we will continue our motions. It seems that one of Earth’s inhabitants, somebody called Joshua, has asked our Creator to give him more daylight to continue his battle to victory!”
Twelve hours of darkness were miraculously prevented, as time came to a pause to last ‘about a whole day’ (Joshua 10:12-14). That day became a 48-hour day, as the earth missed one complete rotation. Wow, what a phenomenon! But such marvels are only possible at the command of the One Creator who spoke the planets into rotation.
Today, we are twenty-four hours behind time, because of that celestial event in history. Today would have been tomorrow, if that event hadn’t happened. A birthday on the 13th of June this year would have been celebrated on the 14th if it wasn’t for that event! This is funny, and maybe hard to understand, but it happened. Time ceased to continue, or actually slowed down, over twenty four hours!
Time slowed down? That’s a weird perception, but possibly possible. Simply get a watch or clock to the manufacturer, who can reconfigure the electronics and re-program the software within to make the second hand move slower. That will definitely slow down the time on the watch, but will fail to cease the earth’s rotational movements!
Apart from a faith that is huge enough to arrest the earth’s motions, there is one other possibility…I think.
Notice the simple physics formula: speed or velocity = distance travelled divided by the time taken to travel that distance or v = d/t. If the formula is re-arranged to put time on the left hand side of the equation, t = d/v, is obtained. This new equation, t = d/v, essentially means that for a fixed distance, less time is taken to cover that distance when speed is increased, or more time is taken to cover that same distance when the speed is reduced.
Take for instance, a typical journey from home to work. It takes 40 minutes to walk to work, or 10 minutes to drive to work over the same distance. The former is a slower speed with more time taken, while the latter is a faster speed with less time taken. This simple arithmetic can be interpreted in many different, crazy and fancy ways. Unscientific, if that pleases you. It’s purely abstract thinking
- Thirty minutes are created by driving. These created minutes can be added to the 24 hours to give a total hour of twenty four hours and 30 minutes for the day, in light of the time needed to do a particular job! While the average slow person has 8 hours to work with for the day, the fast person has 8 hours and thirty minutes!
- The driver travelled 30 minutes ahead of time and into the future, when compared with the walker. Don’t you think this could be some kind of time travel!? Of two people travelling to a same but new destination, the one who speeds will know certain things about that destination which the one who slows is yet to know. It is like knowing the future of the one who is slow!
- Time slows down when speed is increased! At the normal rate, a work is expected to be completed in 30 minutes. But with speed, it is completed in 15 minutes! You can look at time and say, “You are too slow, mate!”
So here’s a simple lesson. Speed up to create more time, slow down time or go ahead of time!
By DeKiafuli
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