God issued light straight away in the first fraction of a second of Creation. Then he worked six days. I will consider how special relativity relates to the creation early-in particular the 6 days of creation. Take a literal value of the word ‘day’ in Genesis 1. It isn’t about deciding that the word day really means ‘watermelon’ or ‘night’. I considered the fact of day as a unit understood in the 2nd millennium B.C. mostly referring to the period where the Earth turns one full revolution (though the ancients didn’t know that the Earth rotated) and from that point made an inference. I think God would work more than 8 hours a day-maybe 10. Some people include night as part of day of course. Though if someone said that it was 6 days walk to village delta they may have meant walking all night too, or not. If one wanted to walk at night and take that risk maybe village delta was three days walk-one can't be sure about the specific use sometimes. They might have meant just walking in the light when lions weren't prowling about.
I should note a minor point before moving on to comment on the relation of special relativity to the six days of creation. In Genesis 1 -5“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
There is an empty space evidently before light or anything else existed. In contemporary cosmology though energy was created at T=0 light did not emerge until the CMB scattering at 380 thousand years post time=0.
God created the qualities that Einstein would later discover and name special relativity too. Relativity probably was issued simultaneously with energy. One must know the Twin’s paradox to understand the points at issue. I will briefly explain the Twin’s paradox...
A pair of twins standing on the Earth one morning looking toward the sky. Twin Brother A says to Twin Brother B- “I will take yonder space ship resting in the pasture on a six day mission at the speed of light to get some sugar for my coffee from the store, try to get some work done while I am gone.”
Twin A walks over to the spaceship, gets inside, sits down, buckles up and accelerates in a streak through the clouds.
Twin A reaches the store on his third day, buys a pound if sugar and some High Country coffee and heads back to Earth. His ship chronometer says that six days have passed, yet when he reaches Earth the chronometer in the pasture says 26 billion years have elapsed. Twin B who remained at rest on Earth had himself encased in plastic, shrink-wrapped and hermetically sealed with an atomic clock stopwatch placed on his head. It also has recorded the passage of 26 billion years. Space and time are one field. Traveling at the speed of light has time dilation effects; in comparison to time for a stationary observer time passes slower. This is not a matter of a literal interpretation of language. Special relativity applied in the 3rd century B.C. too-as well as at the creation; it is a characteristic of space-time built into the Universe.
Because God issued light first thing, I used the speed of light as the basic measure for creation work at time=0 contrasting God as Twin A and mankind as Twin B.
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