On 11/18/05, M Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick calculation suggests that the magnitude is very consistent with > the speed of light, but the resulting units make no sense at all, > suggesting that it may only be a coincidence.
It's not so much that they don't make sense. It's more a matter of applying and understanding them correctly. It isn't necessarily helped by the fact that the article included ALOT of extraneous information. Just as light-year (the distance light travels in a year) measures distance and not time, imagine a moon-year (the distance travelled by the moon in a lunar year) is similarly a measure of distance. And then the claim becomes that the speed of light is roughly a thousand moon-years per day. -Gilberto > > Diameter of the earth = 7926//2 = 3963 miles radius > Diameter of the moon = 2260/2 = 1130 miles radius > Distance from the earth to the moon = 238,000 miles > Radius of the circle which the moon travels around the earth = 3963 + > 1130 + 238,000 = 243,093 miles > Circumference of the moon's orbit around the earth = 2 x 3.14 x 243,093 > = 1,526,624 miles/month > 12 months/year x 1000 years = 12,000 months > 12,000 months x 1,526,624 miles/month = 1.832 x10^10 miles (the moon > would travel in 1000 years) > 1,526, 624 miles/month / 27.3 days/lunar month = 55920.3 miles/day (the > moon would travel) > 1.832 x 10^10 miles / 55920.3 miles/day = 327,600 (but the miles cancel > out and the units make no sense) > The speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec or 300,000 km/sec. > > I am on my way out of town and will have to consider this later, Marleen > > > Firouz wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > > > I am sorry to bring this question about Quran and Islam to this Baha'i > > Studies List. I would really appreciate if Dr. Khazeh Fannanapazir or > > other friends could shed some lights to the claim of these web pages > > as follows: > > > > http://www.geocities.com/speed_of_light_quran/ > > > > http://www.speed-light.info/angels_speed_of_light.htm > > > > http://www.islamicity.com/Science/960703A.SHTML > > > > They are referring to some verses in Holy Quran and try to prove that > > based on these verses the speed of light could be calculated to the > > exact figure. I would like to hear your opinion and what you think of > > such claims. > > > > Best regards, > > Firouz > > > > > > > > > > > The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto > ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is > intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity > named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy > and disclosures acts or other legal rules. 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