So F1 is in the news again. But for the wrong reason. It is in danger of breaking up.
Formula One Team Association (FOTA) which consists of 8 members (Ferrari, BMW Sauber, McLaren, Toyota, Red Bull Racing, Renault and Scuderia Toro Rosso – is threatening to pull out of F1 (Formula One) racing. The dispute is between FOTA and The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) which is the governing body for motor racing events.
I am not speculating on how this dispute will end. There have been past threats to break away which didn’t take place, so who knows whether this one is for real.
Now I have never been to an actual F1 race before. But friends who attended the world’s first F1 night race in Singapore’s street circuit last year said that it was a very fast moving event. You see your favorite F1 driver zooms by in that awesome F1 machine for a split second, and he is out of sight. It is almost like saying that if some dust got into you eye at that very moment, and you blinked your eye, then by the time you refocus your sight, your favorite F1 driver is out of sight.
This reminds me of another interesting verse in the Bible. The Apostle Paul wrote this to the Corinthians:
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (1Cor 15:52).
This describes the rapture – the event when the Lord Jesus Christ returns for His own people. Some people feel that when the rapure occurs, they can grab hold of their non-Christian loved ones, so they can drag them along to heaven. But this is not possible, because it will take less than a second to complete the rapture – in the twinkling of an eye!
Think about it. How fast is the twinkling of an eye?
Jack Van Impe defined it as “eleven one-hundredths of a second.” Another study by H. Hakkanen, H. Summala, et al., published in Vol 22, No 6 of Sleep in 1999 concluded that a typical blink duration by sleepy bus drivers is 8.23 millisecond. Another anwer puts it at 300-400 ms. And someone did a mathematical formula which resulted in the speed of the twinkling of an eye at 1/6,000,000,000th of a second.
Depending on who you believe, the twinkling of an eye is less than a second!
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