The Idiots Never Give up!

This is just a short commentary on a news item that appeared on Yahoo! just this morning. This came from the world of "science", as this nonsense tries to pretend it is, while actually being a pathetic attempt to make Creationism look like science.
"2009: A space oddity; big blob in early universe" the headline declared referring to a huge light source estimated to be 12.9-billion light years away! The Big Bang theory is still kicking, it seems, and it is no small source of amazement that rational people still sit still and swallow this garbage by the trowel full.
The first clue came when the article went on to state that "scientists" were looking back to when the universe was only 800-million years old, an indirect reference to Big Bang. "The photo is beyond fuzzy," the article states without crediting the remark, but it couldn't be fuzzier than the thought processes of these "scientists".

Let's proceed rationally.

This "blob" of radiation-emitting light is 12.9-billion light years away; that is where t was 12.9-billion years ago. If the universe was only 800-million years old then that would be how long it had to take for the object to get that far out. As anyone familiar with scientific mathematics knows numbers quantify objects, and those objects are part of the value being expressed. They are called Units, and they either combine with other units (foot-pound) or cancel each other out. An example of the latter would be;

You traveled at 50 miles/hour for 3 hours. How far did you go? The answer of course is 150 miles. The hours canceled each other out, one being in the denominator of the first term, the other being in the numerator of the second term. Now for the problem at hand.

Dividing 12.9-billion light years by 800-million years will require a little substitution to overcome the limitations of the Blogger posting program. The solution to this problem relies on Scientific Notation, which this site lacks the capability to depict. To compensate I will use the form N E^x, where N is a number greater than zero and less than ten, E is 10 and x is the power to which E is raised.
Thus 2 E would be 20 (2 x 10), a thousand would be 1 E3 (1 x 10 x 10 x 10) and so on.

12.9-billion light years would be 12.9 E9 and 800-million would be 8 E8. We want to know how fast an object would have to travel to cover 12.9 light years in only 800-million years. It's a division problem; 12.9 E9/8 E8 = 1.512 E or 15.12 light, as the years would cancel each other out. So what does 15.12 light mean? As used in the expression it would refer to the speed of light, therefore to travel 12.9-billion light years in 800-million years an object would have to travel more than 15 times the speed of light!

Any questions?