Physicists: Go mano-a-mano with Allah the Allmerciful

Tim Cavanaugh | August 7, 2006

Do we still have any science skills in the Hit & Run crowd? If so, here's a challenge from Almighty God himself:

Relativity in Islam

The Quran (Koran, the book of Islam) defined :

The speed of light in vacuum at 299792.5 km/s.

Time Dilation (Faster moving objects experience slower time).

General Relativity (Time passes slower near bigger mass).

Pulsars and Black Holes.

Wormholes (Length Contraction).

Gravitational Lensing.

Redshifting and Expanding Universe

Can anyone prove us wrong?

Sample proof:

299,792.458 km/s is the speed of light in vacuum. But 1400 years ago it was stated in the Koran (Quran, the book of Islam) that angels travel in one day the same distance that the moon travels in 1000 lunar years, that is, 12000 Lunar orbits / Earth day. Today we know that if we remove the Earth-moon system from the gravitational field of the sun all observers will see the speed of light outside gravitational fields to be equivalent to 12000 Lunar orbits / Earth day.

Physicists, astronomers, far-out space nuts, concerned citizens, be part of the phenomenon. Use your skills; shoot some holes in these moon-happy muallims.