"Masters-level students at Leicester University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy in England examined the ark’s dimensions as described in Genesis 6:13-22 and came to a stunning conclusion.
“University of Leicester students show Noah’s ark would have been strong enough to carry pairs of each animal species,” proclaims a statement on the university’s website.
Student researchers Oliver Youle, Katie Raymer, Benjamin Jordan and Thomas Morris found that Noah’s ark could have theoretically floated even under the weight of 70,000 animals and creatures, the Telegraph reported.
Despite not being able to know for sure whether all of the animals could actually have squeezed onto the giant boat, the researchers say the weight, at least, wouldn’t have been a problem.
Using past analysis that posited there were 35,000 species for Noah to collect onto the vessel, the students looked at the biblical dimensions (300 cubits long by 50 cubits wide by 30 cubits high), considered the weights of the animals, then relied upon Archimedes principle of buoyancy.
“Every object when immersed in a liquid has an upwards force acting against it — a buoyancy force,” explained Youle, who led the project. “It also has a weight acting downwards — a downwards force, and in order for it to float, these two forces need to be equal.”
Since gopher wood — the biblical material said to have been used to make the ship — is still unknown to scientists, the researchers instead crunched the numbers using cypress wood.
“You don’t think of the Bible necessarily as a scientifically accurate source of information, so I guess we were quite surprised when we discovered it would work,” said Morris. “We’re not proving that it’s true, but the concept would definitely work.”
The results were published in the university’s student peer-reviewed Journal of Physics." TheBlaze
“University of Leicester students show Noah’s ark would have been strong enough to carry pairs of each animal species,” proclaims a statement on the university’s website.
Student researchers Oliver Youle, Katie Raymer, Benjamin Jordan and Thomas Morris found that Noah’s ark could have theoretically floated even under the weight of 70,000 animals and creatures, the Telegraph reported.
Despite not being able to know for sure whether all of the animals could actually have squeezed onto the giant boat, the researchers say the weight, at least, wouldn’t have been a problem.
Using past analysis that posited there were 35,000 species for Noah to collect onto the vessel, the students looked at the biblical dimensions (300 cubits long by 50 cubits wide by 30 cubits high), considered the weights of the animals, then relied upon Archimedes principle of buoyancy.
“Every object when immersed in a liquid has an upwards force acting against it — a buoyancy force,” explained Youle, who led the project. “It also has a weight acting downwards — a downwards force, and in order for it to float, these two forces need to be equal.”
Since gopher wood — the biblical material said to have been used to make the ship — is still unknown to scientists, the researchers instead crunched the numbers using cypress wood.
“You don’t think of the Bible necessarily as a scientifically accurate source of information, so I guess we were quite surprised when we discovered it would work,” said Morris. “We’re not proving that it’s true, but the concept would definitely work.”
The results were published in the university’s student peer-reviewed Journal of Physics." TheBlaze
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of:
The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
the breadth of it fifty cubits,
and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:15
