Speed of Light
[Quran 32.5] (Allah) Rules the cosmic affair from the heavens to the Earth. Then this affair travels to Him a distance in one day, at a measure of one thousand years of what you count.
It is the angels who carryout these
orders. Those people back then measured the distances neither in
kilometers nor in miles but rather by how much time they needed to walk.
For example, a village two days away meant a distance equivalent to
walking for two days; ten days away meant a distance equivalent to
walking for ten days... However in this verse the Quran specifies 1000
years of what they counted (not what they walked). Those people back
then followed the lunar calendar and counted 12 lunar months each year.
These months are related to the moon and not related to the sun. Hence
in 1 day the angels will travel a distance of 1000 years of what they
counted (the moon). Since this verse is referring to distance, then God
is saying that angels travel in one day the same distance that the moon
travels in 12000 lunar orbits.
We discovered that when the geocentric frame is inertial
12000 Lunar Orbits/Earth Day becomes equivalent to the
speed of light.
Learn more...
Quran 32.5 is time vs distance;
this gives us speed of angels which turned out to be the
speed of light.
However Quran 22.47 and
Quran 70.4
are time vs time (no distance);
this is time dilation. We know from Einstein that my clock and your
clock will not run at the same rate. Time (or rate of our clocks) depend
on acceleration and/or gravity. If my clock accelerates and/or is in a
strong gravitational field then it will run slower than your clock. So
time is relative.
Quran 22.47 compares time of Earth with
time at Paradise/Hell. While
Quran 70.4 compares time on Earth with
time in wormholes (ma'arej معارج).
(Common sense says that sunlight
illuminates Earth and that without sunlight darkness will cover Earth; is
there anything simpler? But
the Bible says something else: In
Genesis
1:1-31 the Bible explains how the sun is related to day and night.
The Bible says that on the first day God created the light and darkness
on
Earth, the first evening came and the first morning followed. But God
did not
create the sun until the fourth day, specifically after three evenings
and three
mornings. So three evenings and the three mornings occurred on Earth
before
there was a sun. So according to the Bible daylight occurs without the
sun!)
