Nothing too distinctive about something with the name of HD1.
Nothing much, till the fact dawns that it might not exist, or rather, we might not exist while it exists or existed.
HD1 is, at the time of writing, a newly discovered galaxy situated 13.5 billion light-years away. Its presence was detected when its particles reached us (earth) having travelled 13.5 billion light-years.
One “light-year” is the distance light travels within a year – the “year” here refers to what we know as a year, sort of 365 days give and take a few hours.
13.5 billion light-years is 13.5 billion time of “a year” a light has travelled.
Whichever way you say it, it is a big huge number.
To pause for a moment and consider, the galaxy HD1 out there, is it still there as in this point in time? If it is there, is it in the form we know it through the particles / sound waves we received?
Rarely anyone doubts when scientists declare a major discovery. In very rare occasion, science / scientists discovered they have made mistakes. But on the whole, we accept and trust what we are told about the physical world.
It makes us think that God’s creation, the part we can see and measure, is so much a marvel in its tiniest detail of something we can hold on our finger, to something as beyond comprehension as HD1, or that it took such a long time for us to detect its presence. We cannot deny HD1’s presence, neither can HD1 deny our presence.
This is opening up many interesting observations. For example, there are things whose presence and factual or behavioural characteristics we do not know until…. well, until we found each other.
The “light” in light year is used because light is a natural phenomenon that is “universal”, with constant properties for which we can measure distance and time. The fact that there are such phenomena as light which have some constant or predictable properties is somewhat perplexing – the universe is not random.
Scientists are proposing that HD1 was at the proximity of the big bang – “the” as in there was one, and “big bang” being a scientific theory of truth that remains somewhat unprovable in its entirety. The interesting thing is God was there whenever the big bang took place, or in whichever form “big bang” happened, or indeed if something else happened instead – or that the earth / creation came about despite / without the consequence of what we know about big bang. Not only God was there, God was (speaking in terms of “time”) before it happened. God “was” in the sense that God is and always have been.
I wondered about HD0.
