Stay Signed In
Do you want to access your site more quickly on this computer? Check this box, and your username and password will be remembered for two weeks. Click logout to turn this off.
Stay Safe
Do not check this box if you are using a public computer. You don't want anyone seeing your personal info or messing with your site.
The reduction of earth's size in both the Noble Quran and Science
”Do they not see that We gradually reduce the land from its sides”
{Al-Quran 21:44 }
Explanation
Science&Quran
Rate It
Votes: 0
Embed Video
In the above verse Allah is informing us about the reduction of the
outer layers of the earth/land. Earth can be reduce in three ways:
1. Matter is reducing from the outer layers of earth.
Professor Keller, who is a geologist, says the Earth also LOSES
mass. All the time, we're losing light elements, mostly hydrogen,
from the atmosphere.
Another way the Earth loses mass, says Professor Keller, is through
radioactive decay. In case you didn't know it, the Earth's interior
is pepperedintroduce with radioactive elements such as uranium.
Radioactivity is the decay, or gradual disintegration, of the nuclei
of radioactive isotopes. Isotopes are versions of elements that have
the same number of protons as the regular element, but different
numbers of neutrons.
As these radioactive elements decay, they give off heat (called
RADIOGENIC heat). In fact, about four percent of the heat at the
Earth's surface comes from inside it! In the process of releasing
this energy, the elements also lose mass.
2. Due to melting of ice in the polar regions, water increases in
ocean and land decreases.
(1)Melting of ice in the polar regions
Global sea level rise is caused by two factors. One is the delivery
of water to the ocean as land ice melts, such as mountain glaciers
and polar icecaps.
(2)The second factor is the thermal expansion of water within the
oceans. As the temperature of the waters in the oceans rises and the
seas become less dense, they will spread, occupying more surface
area on the planet. Increased temperature will accelerate the rate
of sea level rise.
Because sea level is rising thus the land of the earth is decreasing.
3. Reduction at poles
Standing on Earth's surface can not see the small changes in Earth's
shape but researchers have been watching the equator shrink (reduce
in size) slowly over the past few decades with satellites, a process
that they believe has been going on since the last ice age 18,000
years ago. Since the ice age, glaciers at the poles have been
melting slowly as global temperatures warm, allowing magma under
Earth's crust to move towards the poles once the heavy weight of ice
was no longer squashing them. This allowed the equator to shrink
(reduce in size) as the molten rock (magma) moved away.
For the past four years, however, Earth has been doing something
quite different. Researchers at Raytheon and NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center have been watching the equator grow larger. So when the equatorial diameter of the Earth expands under the effect of the force, thus it looses at the poles.
Science&Quran
Rate It
Votes: 0
Embed Video
To Read the scientists' comments on the Quran hit the link below:
Back To Home Page
