Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 13, 2015
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Transcript:
Wait a sec... Information can't go faster than the speed of light. That means I can determine the distance to God just by praying and waiting for a response? Dear Lord, what is the meaning of life? Here lies Steve Jones Died a minimum of 40 light-years from his maker
“Minimum of 40 light years”? Totally wrong. That assumes that both his prayer and the response, if any, travel at the speed of light. He doesn’t appear to have gathered any evidence to support such assumptions..What if prayer only travels at the speed of sound in air? Then that “40 light years” would really be only about 24 light minutes, or about 1/3 the distance between the orbits of Earth and Saturn..Of course, if God is not located on or in the Earth or its atmosphere and if prayer travels as sound (is this why many people pray out loud?), then the prayers would never reach Him, since sound cannot travel in a vacuum.