Muslims seek to redefine world time to be based on Mecca not Greenwich
08-13-2010, 07:57 AM
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Muslims seek to redefine world time to be based on Mecca not Greenwich
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For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.
But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged by a gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca, by which the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims could soon be setting their watches.
Due to start ticking on Thursday as the faithful begin fasting during the month of Ramadan, the timepiece sits atop the Royal Mecca Clock Tower which dominates Islam’s holiest city.
But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.
For the past 125 years, the international community has accepted that the start of each day should be measured from the prime meridian, representing 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Greenwich Observatory.
A standard time by which other clocks were set was needed to organise global travel and communications, but in the Islamic world the idea that it should be centred on a part of London is seen as a colonial anachronism.
As Mohammed al-Arkubi, manager of one of the hotels in the complex, put it: "Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time. This is the goal."
According to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric known around the Muslim world for his popular television show "Sharia and Life", Mecca has a greater claim to being the prime meridian because it is "in perfect alignment with the magnetic north."
This claim that the holy city is a "zero magnetism zone" has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.
"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."
Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the Magnetic North Pole is in actual fact on a line of longitude that passes through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-Greenwich.html
For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.
But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged by a gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca, by which the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims could soon be setting their watches.
Due to start ticking on Thursday as the faithful begin fasting during the month of Ramadan, the timepiece sits atop the Royal Mecca Clock Tower which dominates Islam’s holiest city.
But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.
For the past 125 years, the international community has accepted that the start of each day should be measured from the prime meridian, representing 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Greenwich Observatory.
A standard time by which other clocks were set was needed to organise global travel and communications, but in the Islamic world the idea that it should be centred on a part of London is seen as a colonial anachronism.
As Mohammed al-Arkubi, manager of one of the hotels in the complex, put it: "Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time. This is the goal."
According to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric known around the Muslim world for his popular television show "Sharia and Life", Mecca has a greater claim to being the prime meridian because it is "in perfect alignment with the magnetic north."
This claim that the holy city is a "zero magnetism zone" has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.
"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."
Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the Magnetic North Pole is in actual fact on a line of longitude that passes through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-Greenwich.html
08-13-2010, 11:40 AM
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I am so not buying a new clock because some muslim hippies believe that their holy worship place is the center of the world.
08-13-2010, 12:56 PM
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^^ Don't even bring religion into this. This is not a religious issue. It's a confusion issue.
Most likely scenario: Someone figured out how to make an atomic clock and convinced the muslim church to help in the name of Allah.
Second most likely scenario: Dude.. know what would be cool? If we challenge time itself to bring attention to our religion.
Reality of the situation: This project breaks down the unity of time which has been established over the last few decades.
Seriously.... they've just got internet over there within the last decade while we've been using it since '85. They're learning how to do things in modern life. It's not a well thought out idea.
Most likely scenario: Someone figured out how to make an atomic clock and convinced the muslim church to help in the name of Allah.
Second most likely scenario: Dude.. know what would be cool? If we challenge time itself to bring attention to our religion.
Reality of the situation: This project breaks down the unity of time which has been established over the last few decades.
Seriously.... they've just got internet over there within the last decade while we've been using it since '85. They're learning how to do things in modern life. It's not a well thought out idea.
08-13-2010, 08:44 PM
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Bonus points for 'muslim scientist' BS being included in the story. Did you know that if a fly falls in your drink, you should dip it in, because one wing has a disease on it and the other wing has the cure on it? Muslim scientists say so!
Everything a muslim does is or properly should be about religion. This is "in the face" of the infidel. They want everyone (starting with muslims) to point their watches to mecca, because that's where their stone is. It's not about time, it's about islam. Islam translates to English as "Submission" and they want you to submit to THEIR time, world standards be damned. Never mind if it causes a little confusion in the business world. You see, you would not be confused if you would just use Mecca time instead of the "colonial anachronism" in England. Go along with our way and it will all work out fine!
The point of islam, from the days when mohammed was still kicking right up to current is: take over the world. Everybody will a) convert cool.gif submit or c) die. Then nobody will be fighting (back) against the armies of islam anymore - there will be peace! Sure it's a religion of peace: peace after you all lose the war!
What are we going to do tonight, Brain?
Bonus points for 'muslim scientist' BS being included in the story. Did you know that if a fly falls in your drink, you should dip it in, because one wing has a disease on it and the other wing has the cure on it? Muslim scientists say so!
Everything a muslim does is or properly should be about religion. This is "in the face" of the infidel. They want everyone (starting with muslims) to point their watches to mecca, because that's where their stone is. It's not about time, it's about islam. Islam translates to English as "Submission" and they want you to submit to THEIR time, world standards be damned. Never mind if it causes a little confusion in the business world. You see, you would not be confused if you would just use Mecca time instead of the "colonial anachronism" in England. Go along with our way and it will all work out fine!
The point of islam, from the days when mohammed was still kicking right up to current is: take over the world. Everybody will a) convert cool.gif submit or c) die. Then nobody will be fighting (back) against the armies of islam anymore - there will be peace! Sure it's a religion of peace: peace after you all lose the war!
What are we going to do tonight, Brain?
08-13-2010, 11:40 PM
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I say we go ahead and do it.
Why?
Well, atomic clocks are so accurate because they go by the decay of radioactive material. Since that whole place will be glowing in the dark for the next thousand years, here in a few years, we might as well.
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Why?
Well, atomic clocks are so accurate because they go by the decay of radioactive material. Since that whole place will be glowing in the dark for the next thousand years, here in a few years, we might as well.
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