can we approach the speed of light?
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peace maxq,
can you please quote the translation of that?5533 O Communities of the the hidden beings (including shamans, nomads and magicians,) as well as the urban ones! If you can break through the fences of the heavens and the earth, then, break through. Never can you break through without an Authority. Can you bring any evidence?
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Exactly, heavens and hearth together signifies the universe in its entirity... but again, it says AQTAAR, which may also be translated as "confines", and this does not mean just gravitational confines.
The question is, how can you influence a fundamental particle/force of the universe (I am not talking about electrons/protols/quanta or even quarks here, but something even more fundamental, such as a string)...
If we, for a minute, assume that the fundamental particle of the universe is a string. Then, perhaps you need to be at an even purer (more fundamental) level than that to cause such an influence to tear through the fabric of time-space itself. It would not only require an ability to cause sting vibrations that are perhaps a billionth of the size of a quark, but you would also need an infinite amount of computational power to calculate/compute where to cause which vibration and with what amplitude and phase.
That is perhaps what the state (or hyper-form) of the authority is that God speaks of.
About your question
While space is an unpredictable place where a meteor/asteroid can come and hit you out of nowhere, my understanding on fiery projectiles, for those who listen to God, is not the same Yousuf Ali or Pikthal. I will quote QXP here
728 And we tried to feel the heaven but found it well attended by mighty guards and flames." (The shining Knowledge in the Qur?an dismisses all conjecture of the astrologers, fortune-tellers, and other claimants of occult sciences).
675 And indeed, We have beautified the sky of the world with shining lamps. And made them objects of futile guesses for the satans. (1517, 376-9, 72. And for them We have prepared the doom of blazing flames.
God is not confined to the heavens... he is closer to us than our Jugular Vein. We do not need to go to outer space to listen to Him.
Infact, space travel and "star trek" is predicted in the Quran
When the sky is unveiled (space sciences and travel begins)
When the sky is shattered/conquered (space sciences and travel begins)
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Hi Maxi,
Interesting thought. I have heard that although sonar is slower than light, if the waves could be straightened, the result would be something a lot faster than light. But I do understand that it still will not be something fundamental.
Can I ask you something else that I was wondering? We know that photons do not have mass, but that gravity will affect anything that has mass. How come light from stars bends around planets (because of gravity) before it reaches us? Surely that means that photons do have some mass. Sorry, I didn't pay attention during science classes -[
Peace
Zak
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no that has to do with the spacial warping around a body with a huge mass... such as a black hole. perhaps, it is also referring to the fact that around a black hole, the escape vilocity approaches the vilocity of light (or perhaps even exceeds it.)
Maxi,
That took me a bit of time to understand but I get it now light does not bend normally, although normality itself can be distorted by large mass objects, and consequentially, light is distorted in comparison to normality. Thanks for clearing that up.
Peace
Zak