Bible Prophecies and Quantum Mechanics

   Radioactive decay rates are used by scientists to date various fossils, rock strata and even the Earth itself because radioactive decay rates are supposedly constant and cannot be altered by any combination of pressure and temperature known to exist within the Earth’s crust. This same rule applies to gravitational, magnetic and electrical fields, as well as to the chemical state in which a given radioactive element is found. However, new scientific evidence has shown that the decay rate constants of many radioactive isotopes can, under certain conditions, be changed without any deviation from the extant laws of physics.
   Decay rates apply to radioactive atoms – i.e., atoms with unstable nuclei, meaning that they contain an overabundance of neutrons or protons. In order to achieve stability, the nuclei of radioactive atoms must shed the extra neutrons or protons, a procedure which entails the release of radiation. Depending upon the atomic configuration of the particular elemental isotope, transmutation from instability to stability (a process called the decay rate) could take tens of millions of years. (The time it takes for an isotope to achieve stability is referred to as its half life.) 
   But when a radioactive atom is stripped of the cloud of electrons which orbit its nucleus, the strong nuclear forces which bind the atom’s components together can be lessened in strength or otherwise altered, accommodating a faster evacuation of the extra neutrons and protons that render it radioactive. In some cases, this can result in drastically accelerated decay rates.
   When a rubber ball is tossed against a concrete wall, the ball bounces back. Likewise, when a neutron or proton attempts to penetrate the wall of powerful electromagnetic energy binding it to a nucleus, a similar bounce-back effect takes place. However, some atomic particles are composed of even smaller sub-atomic particles, which are governed by a much different set of rules, bordering on chaotic. For example, certain sub-atomic (quantum) particles can be prompted into assuming the form of energy waves, allowing them to work their way through the wall of strong nuclear energy restraining them. This process is referred to by physicists as quantum tunneling.

   All matter is composed of condensed energy. The three common states of matter are gas, solid and liquid. But there is a fourth state of matter called plasma, which is produced when extremely high temperatures gasify an element and cause its atoms to vigorously collide. The force of these collisions results in a disassociation of its atoms into ions and electrons. Atoms in a complete plasma state have no electrons surrounding their nuclei. The process of stripping away an atom’s electrons is called ionization. Nearly all matter in the universe – including the fiery interior of the Earth — exists in an ionized plasma state – with the relatively cool crust of the Earth as a miraculous and rare exception.
   Before any significant degree of ionization can be achieved, temperatures in the area of 10,000 K are required, a temperature far exceeded by lightning strikes. Lightning (which is a form of luminous plasma) can reach temperatures of 30,000 K, which is even hotter than the 6,000 K surface of the Sun.
   A fusillade of coronal mass ejections (multi-billion-ton clouds of solar material and magnetic fields blasted into space by the Sun’s corona) could fuel ultra-ferocious plasma lightning storms which (rather than gasifying the Earth’s entire crust) could purify the Earth; first, by selectively ionizing non-radioactive pollutants and altering their molecular structure so they are no longer toxic; and, secondly, by ionizing radioactive contaminants, exponentially accelerating their half-lives from millions of years to a few days or even a few hours, and  thereby very rapidly rendering them stable and no longer lethal.
   Since all this could be achieved with no alteration of the extant laws of physics (as God created them to serve His Holy Will), Biblical pledges that such a purifying event will in fact take place (when God sees fit) are rendered even more believable, even to the most skeptical science-oriented intellects. The ability of nature to purify itself by means of quantum tunneling (and by other means) paints a picture of hope for the future, especially for a world currently being afflicted by the ongoing, world-poisoning nuclear nightmare at Fukushima, Japan, which no extant man-made technology is even remotely capable of rectifying.
   The laws of nature eloquently testify to Biblical accounts of Creation (i.e., a Divinely-wrought electrified plasma universe), rather than to the so-called “Big Bang” singularity account, which supposedly happened billions of years ago by its own initiative with no immortal, super-intelligent guiding hand. The speculative passage of billions of years also quite conveniently accommodates the invention of additional fanciful, non-provable theories, such as evolution. But given the ultra-complexity of the atom, no measurement of distant past ages is completely reliable. The universe could easily be much younger than scientists could ever imagine.