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The Koranic Speed of Light
A reader sent me a really wonderfully wacko link. It's a fundamentalist islamic site, which tries to use relativity to argue for the divinity of the Koran. It's remarkably silly.
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Islam and Pseudo Science.
Several weeks ago, I found the article about Speed of light and Islam, very interesting. It seems he is a knowledgeable man in physics. But after reading his article I realized his equations (base on his interpretation of Al Quran) and also his calculation content many incorrect physical interpretation.
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Originally posted by Nuupio
The Koranic Speed of Light
A reader sent me a really wonderfully wacko link. It's a fundamentalist islamic site, which tries to use relativity to argue for the divinity of the Koran. It's remarkably silly.
scienceblogs.com...
Their argument is based on the idea that the speed of light can vary in certain accelerated reference frames - and that, therefore, the speed of light is not a fixed quantity based on the speed of light in a vacuum - because the speed of light in a vacuum can vary!
Originally posted by visible_villain
This, IMHO, is a very sophisticated notion for a 'primitive' people ...
I always ask myself the question -
Did we have 'a little help' in 'concieving' of these 'very sophisticated' ideas?
There is no end to the strange things Muslim Fundies will claim. A new one is in A New Astronomical Quranic Method for The Determination Of The Greatest Speed Cby Dr. Mansour Hassab-Elnaby. There are hundreds of bogus arguments like this on the web (or at least were when I wrote this). But one need only see how bogus one or two are to see it isn't worth bothering investigating any more (see, for example, my other essay: Cosmology and the Koran: A Response to Muslim Fundamentalists, 2001). I guess this is the shotgun strategy--make so many wild claims that skeptics couldn't possibly rebut them all for shear lack of time, and claim victory. Someone has rebutted the speed of light argument already: see the simple Review by Dr. Arnold Neumaier of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Vienna.
Originally posted by mikesingh
I've always felt that what we term as 'Gods' are nothing but people from an ET culture who have hastened our evolution by artificial genetic mutation and given to us knowledge that otherwise would have taken hundreds of thousands of years to evolve.
Unfortunately, the translators/writers/poets etc have interpreted these concepts and written them from word of mouth and passed them down the ages, which turned out to be something very ambiguous as they could not of course have been expected to possess the knowledge and scientific percepts that were meant to be handed down to coming generations.
Originally posted by Gorman91
Mike, people have known for quite some time that light alters per gravity's affect on it. More gravity = slower light, because timw is slowed. My post a while back detailed how one could use this concept to make such an engine.
This is not something that is hidden by the government nor restricted by some group of elites. it's common knowlege for those who seek to persue the field in science.
Gravity is to this century what electricity was to the 19th. We don't have a damn clue how it works, but we know how to use it for our advantage.
Originally posted by cdi
I was observing orion which was low in the west at about 1 am bst. above orion a ring of light appeared briefly and an object transited and coursed to the south from the centre.