Page 775 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

30 YEARS AGO

One twin sister takes a
space trip at a speed
close to the speed of
light. When she returns
thirty years later, the
sister who stayed on the
earth will be much older
compared to the sister
who went into space.
TODAY

same example can be thought of in relation to a father who went on a space trip in a rocket traveling at
nearly 99 percent of the speed of time and his son who remained on this earth. According to Einstein, if
the father was 27 years old and his son was three, 30 earth-years later when the father returned to earth,
the son would be 33 and the father would be 30 years old. 45
The relativity of time is not something that is relative to the speeding up or slowing down of the

clock; it comes from the fact that every material system, to the particles at the subatomic level, works at
different rates of speed. In an environment where time was slowed down, a person's heartbeat, rate of
cell division and brain activity would happen more slowly. In this situation, a person would go about his

daily business unaware that time had slowed down.

The Concept Of The Relativity Of Time Is Revealed In The Qur’an

As we explained in previous pages, time is not an absolute reality; with discoveries in modern sci-
ence it has been definitely proved that it is a relative perception. It is a wonder that this discovery made
by science in the 20th century was revealed in the Qur’an 1400 years before.
For example, in some verses, it is pointed out that life is very short. A human life of approximately 60

years is said to be as short as an hour in a day.
On the Day He calls you, you will respond by praising Him and think that you have only tarried a very

short time. (Surat al-Isra': 52)
On the day We gather them together—when it will seem if they had tarried no more than an hour of a sin-
gle day – they will recognize one another... (Surah Yunus: 45)

In other verses, it is revealed that time is much shorter than people think it is.

He will say, "How many years did you tarry on the earth?" They will say, "We tarried there for a day or part
of a day. Ask those able to count!" He will say, "You only tarried there for a little while if you did but
know!" (Surat al-Muminun: 112-114)
In other verses in the Qur’an it is said that time moves with a different speed in different dimensions.

For example, it is revealed that one day in God's sight is equal to a thousand years. (Surat al-Hajj: 47)
Other verses speak of this:

The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose length is fifty thousand years. (Surat al-Ma'arij: 4)

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