as stated in the Quran "...and the Sun runs to a determined resting place (in the heavens)"?
2006-07-04 19:56:59 · 10 answers · asked by 【ツ】ρεαcε! 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
On NASA Chanel they talked about the solar system moving in an orbit around our Galaxy.(Milky Way) and it taking several thousand million years to complete.The solar system also moves around in our arm of our Milky Way galaxy in cycle of of approximately 60 million years. I read when I was a kid that the solar system is moving toward a star called VEGA in the constellation called Lyra, At a rate of twelve and one half miles per second. If at any time the Solar system finds a resting place any of us that are living now probably will be long gone by then .
2006-07-04 20:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by eudaemon 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Hello,
It seems that the sun and its myriad of planets are just rotating around in the spiral galaxy that we call home, the Milky Way. The words in the Koran are figurative. Remember, in the times of Mohamed, little was known about astronomy and the movement of celestial objects. I do not think anybody has done much of a research on what will be our next stop in this trip, but instead there is an interesting theory that our entire galaxy is heading towards a close encounter with the cluster that contains Andromeda Galaxy, and if it is true that Andromeda has a supermassive black hole in its center and our own Milky Way seems to have, it will be a very interesting thing to see, because both galaxies are suppose to pass so close to each other that they will eventually collide and both black holes will converge to form an even bigger one and a new galaxy will be formed. What the scientists do not know is if we are going to be part of that new galaxy or we will be thrown out entirely. Maybe that will be our resting place... Only time will tell and this is going to happen in a few million years, so please do not sit and wait for it OK (smile)
2006-07-05 20:02:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The solar system is moving with respect to the center of the galaxy, and our galaxy is moving with respect to other galaxies, and it is possible to predict the location of our solar system with respect to other stuff in the universe on a given future date.
However, there is no absolute scale. It is impossible to say that something is moving without saying what it is moving with respect to. How can we say that the sun (for example) is at rest? We can only say that it is moving or not moving with respect to something else.
2006-07-04 20:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff Scheidt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because that Aristotle admitted that the earth changed into the middle of the Universe, to describe the sunlight action he had to discover an really complicated kind that changed into an version of an outline by using yet another greek said as Eudoxus. the outline changed into depending in an outer sphere with the fastened stars. interior of this sphere there have been many others shifting independently. only for the sunlight he had to anticipate 3 concentric spheres and for the planets even extra extra: i imagine that Cambelp2002 has given an intensive rationalization. i do not comprehend how Aristotle defined the preventing of the sunlight yet once you postulate a sufficiently complicated kind, you may clarify each and every thing. some centuries after Aristotle, Ptotolomey proposed the epicycle kind and he managed to describe in reality each and every of the moves of sunlight, Moon and the planets. even as the kind did not fit the outcomes he merely had to operate extra epicycles. curiously adequate he had to consider that middle of rotation changed into not the Earth yet a level close to the Earth
2016-11-01 05:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google Great Attractor. The Milky Way and all the other galaxies around us seem to be moving towards some unknown object a few hundred million light years away.
2006-07-04 20:33:21 · answer #5 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, at last indication the sun is one of the most stationary bodies in the universe, approximately at the centre. It is not moving anywhere in particular, simply in orbit within the milky way.
2006-07-04 20:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our solar system resides in the outer edge of one of two spiral arms in the milkyway galaxy, in time, it will eventually be at the center of our milkyway galaxy ready to be devoured by the massive black hole! The theory that a black hole is at the center is no longer theory! It has been scientifically proven in the last couple years.
2006-07-04 20:07:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
our sun rotates around the centre of the milky way (our galaxy) like all the other stars in our galaxy. the time taken by the sun to complete one rotation around the centre of the milky way is called 1 COSMIC YEAR. stars closer to the centre of the milky way have shorter cosmic years as compared to those which farther. our sun completes 1 cosmic year in about 240 million years at a galactic rotational speed of 220 km/sec. in its 5 billion years life it has completed about 20 cosmic years.
2006-07-04 20:13:45 · answer #8 · answered by mridul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fact is yes, the milky way and all other solar systems out there are moving. and if you base it from a futuristic point of view, its going to reach somewhere. so yeh.
2006-07-04 20:02:08 · answer #9 · answered by rydhel1016 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wt..
known point
circling the galaxy
yes
galaxy moving to --... someplace we dont know..
I dont
maybe Quran does
2006-07-04 20:02:10 · answer #10 · answered by top_ace_striker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋