format_quote Originally Posted by
Fishman
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Well, to know the speed of something, you have to do distance divided by time. We know how long it takes affairs to reach the throne, that is, 50000 years in one day. But we do not know how far away the throne is.
:w:
Actually they don't need that.
the claim on this side from wich the base the theory upon is:
It was stated in the Quran that angels travel in one day the same distance that the moon travels in 1000 lunar years
We know exactly the speed of the moon. So we can calculate the distance that the moon travels in 1000 lunar years. We call this distance X.
Then the angels would move at speed of: X/day
The problem however is, the verse in the qur'an doesn't say: Angels travel in one day the same distance as the moon travels in 1000 lunar years.
They derive this from teh qur'an as such:
Since this verse is referring to distance, then Allah is saying that angels travel in one day the same distance that the moon travels in 12000 lunar orbits.
first of all the verse isn't refering to a distance but to a speed, and even if it would refer to a speed, that still doesn't explain why one would change the mentioned time into an unmentioned distance.
Calculations are pretty impressive nevertheless.