Outer Darkness

Outer darkness is only referred to three times in scripture, but by using context we can establish what and where it is. The easiest thing to take for context is the gnashing of teeth, which occurs nine times in the Bible.

September 20th

The planet Venus may have been the source of some of the plagues: rivers turned into blood, hail was mingled with fire, and an impenetrable darkness where people couldn't see their hands in front of their faces.

Effect and Cause

Why are planetary orbits elliptical? We've considered this as an example of how to understand frame of reference, but Newton supposedly solved this problem mathematically in Principia Mathematica: