Seven Heavens in Quran

The theory of gravity is not correct, and is easily disproved, if gravity truly was an attraction of mass why don't things get pulled sideways towards mountains for example, as for the emperors new suit, dark matter, it's a fiction created to hide the major problems with the false theory of the big bang, anyway people love to believe the majority who are held in subjugation to the sovereign propaganda[.] "Seven Heavens in Quran" is a document by Speed-Light.info (an Islam apologism/evangelism site) that purports to show that the Qur'an contains scientific foreknowledge when it "predicted" that humans could enter space.

The following is a side-by-side rebuttal.

Rebuttal
{{sbs|1=The Jinn can pass right through you. The Quran says that we cannot see them nor collide with them but we can detect their gravity. However these are the exact same properties of Dark Matter, we cannot see them nor collide with them however we can detect their gravity. String Theory explains what they are: They are mass in other dimensions.

{{sbs|1=Traditionally physicists thought that the smallest particles in atoms were point like, that is, they looked like points. However recently discovered evidence suggest that the smallest particle is not point like, as previously thought, but rather a vibrating string of energy. But physicists also discovered that these strings need more than three spatial dimensions to vibrate in. Particularly they need six extra spatial dimensions.
 * 2=Again, String theory is a hypothesis; there is currently insufficient evidence to say it is true or false.}}

{{sbs|1=In all versions of String Theory there are 10 dimensions: "Time" plus the usual three spatial dimensions x,y,z (4 dimensions, our observable universe) plus six extra spatial dimensions making a total of ten dimensions (1 time + 9 spatial = 10 dimensions).
 * 2=Of anything Speed-Light.info has said, this is the most damning. If there are 10 dimensions – four of which are the ones we can observe – then there are only 6 remaining dimensions. Yet the Qur'an, according to Speed-Light.info, speaks of 7 additional heavens.

Even according to Speed-Light.info, we have only two alternatives: either the Qur'an is right, and String Theory (which Speed-Light.info is so enamored of) is wrong – or the Qur'an is wrong and String theory is right.}}

{{sbs|1=(YouTube) In this animation the strings with different colors are actually vibrating in different dimensions. They do not interact with each other except gravitationally. The two dimensional membrane that they are attached to in this animation is the three dimensions that we are used to projected on 2D (for this presentation). Photons only travel on this 2D plane (again for this presentation), and this is why we cannot see them. We can only detect the strings' gravitational shadow on the 2D plane. Other competing theories like M-Theory has one extra spatial dimension (making the total 11 dimensions), however this extra spatial dimension is for the description of strings themselves (whether a string is a one-dimensional object like a thread, or whether a string is a rolled up two-dimensional membrane like a tube). If the strings have thickness (or variable thickness as in this animation) then we need this 11th dimension in order to describe them (to describe the tube). However if the strings have no thickness (always unity) then there is no need for the 11th dimension. In any case, in all currently competing theories, this Dark Matter is strings vibrating in six extra spatial dimensions. And in all those theories gravity is a force carried by gravitons (just like magnetism is carried by photons). Gravitons are emitted from strings and are then absorbed by other strings even those vibrating in other dimensions (different colors in this presentation). The place where gravitons travel is called the bulk (different than the 2D plane where light travels in this presentation).
 * 2=First. String. Theory. Is. Hypothetical.

Second, this is just technobabble for the average reader – it is likely here to imply that the author is intelligent and must thus be right, rather than to convince them with reasonable arguments.}}

{{sbs|1=[Quran 20.6][: "]To Him belongs what is in the Heavens and what is on Earth and what is between them and what is under the soil.["]

Not only does the superimposed heavens (extra dimensions) belong to Allah but also what's between them (برزخ, the bulk where gravitons travel). The bulk is a location just like under the soil is a location. From a physics point of view, we are not living in a "Universe" but rather in a "Multiverse"; several universes superimposed above each other. Gravity is the only thing shared between these parallel universes: (YouTube) The invisible Dark Matter is simply mass in other dimensions. You might ask how does those six extra spatial dimensions look like: (YouTube)
 * 2=The science isn't necessarily wrong. (Again, it is hypothetical.) It is, however, utterly ridiculous to assume that the Qur'an discussing the (hypothetical) sharing of gravity between dimensions. {{qur'an|20|6}} (Pickthall) states:

{{quotebox|Unto Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth, and whatsoever is between them, and whatsoever is beneath the sod.}}

Gravity – or weight, or things being heavy – is not even mentioned within this verse. In fact, the verse doesn't state that anything is shared between the heavens, merely stating " whatsoever is between them". Again, for this verse to make sense, it must have meaning inserted into it – which defeats the Qur'an as being perfect.

And, again, dimensions are not mentioned – unless one goes against conventional translations of "heavens".}}

{{sbs|1= Extra dimensions are tiny and curled up at each point in space. To envision a single extra dimension imagine the ant in the above video shrinking billions of times. Then this ant becomes small enough for transition to the extra circular dimension (like a roller coaster):


 * 2=Alas – the hoola hoops are attacking!

This statement has little to do with the Qur'an. But, nevertheless, it manages to be completely wrong.

First, as noted, extra dimensions are hypothetical, with no solid empirical backing at this time.

Second, and more importantly, you can't just get "into" extra dimensions by being really really small. (Probably.)}}

{{sbs|1= However instead of one extra circular dimension there are six dimensions and not necessarily circular; but they are all curled up at each point in space. The ant would encounter multiple routes like this:


 * 2=If "multiple routes" is supposed to mean "quantum {{wpl|pom-pom|pom-poms|"}}, then this is a perfect illustration.}}

{{sbs|1=As long as the ant remains in any of those extra dimensions we would not be able to see the ant nor collide with it but we would still detect its gravity. In M-Theory the Dark Mater is not only mass in other dimensions but they are in parallel universes (where the laws of physics might not be the same as ours). The only thing shared among those superimposed parallel universes is gravity. Add our universe to those parallel universes you get the Multiverse.
 * 2=Hypo. Thetical.}}



{{sbs|1=On the other hand God swears by the heaven that has weaves:

[Quran 51.7][: "]And the heaven that has weaves (Hubuk in Arabic).["]

Hubuk is plural of Habka which means a knot or a weave. Doesn't the route that this ant needs to take look like a weave? Of course. Actually those Seven Heavens (Multiverse) are parallel universes woven together (literally).
 * 2=First, this is hypothetical. Again.

Second, this is an unscientific approach; it doesn't matter what the image Speed-Light.info provides looks like, it matters what it actually is. And, at this point, it is impossible to say whether

Third, the verse of the Qur'an doesn't actually say that the heavens are interwoven – merely that they have weaves. The Pickthall translation of {{qur'an|51|7}} doesn't even mention weaves:

{{quotebox|By the heaven full of paths}}

And this is supported by the word-by-word translation of Qur'an.com, which states that {{qur'an|51|7}} is:

{{quotebox|By the heaven full of pathways}}}}

{{sbs|1=God also swears that someday we will travel to one of those extra dimensions:

[Quran 84.16-18][: "]I swear by the afterglow of sunset... You will ride one layer from another layer.(لتركبن طبقا عن طبق)["]

Here "Tabak طبق" is a noun meaning "a layer". The adjective "Tibak طباق" means "superimposed" and is used in describing the seven heavens "سبع سموات طباق". The superimposed heavens in the Quran are the extra spatial dimensions in modern physics.
 * 2=Speed-Light.info interestingly uses an ellipsis (...) here. Wonder why? {{quran|84|16|19}} (Pickthall) states:

{{quotebox|Oh, I swear by the afterglow of sunset, And by the night and all that it enshroudeth, And by the moon when she is at the full, That ye shall journey on from plane to plane.}}

Apparently, according to Speed-Light.info, the Qur'an thinks that the heavens are "superimposed" only when the moon is full. Unless physics is one way for 27 days and completely different the other 1, this is bullshit.

Moreover, it's hard to say that the heavens are "superimposed" in modern physics – not only is the science hypothetical, but dimensions aren't clearly "above" or "below" each other (there's no "hierarchy" of dimensions).}}

{{sbs|1=Today we are sure that we are not living in a "Universe" but rather in a "Multiverse". No physicist today believes that we are living in the three-dimensional universe of the Christian Bible (where not even time is a dimension!).
 * 2=True. But just because some other religion failed, does not mean Islam is correct – this is a false dichotomy.}}

{{sbs|1=Moslems ask how could an illiterate man who lived 1400 years have known that we are living in a Multiverse? Long answer: Through gross misinterpretation of his words, that's how.}}
 * 2=Short answer: He didn't.