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Teleportation? Invisibility?? Time Travel???

April 30, 2008

Teleportation and forcefields possible within decades, says Professor Michio Kaku

[The Abdal (people of the step) and other Awliya have achieved these things hundreds of years ago!!]

By Matthew Moore

Teleportation and forcefields could become scientific realities within decades, and time travel will also be possible in the future, according to one of the world’s leading physicists.

Professor Michio Kaku of City University in New York has studied a range of scientific “impossibilities” and concluded that most will almost certainly be achieved as our knowledge expands.

Information appearing on telegraph.co.uk is the copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited and must not be reproduced in any medium without licence. For the full copyright statement see Copyright Applying the rule that unless something breaks a law of physics “then it’s not only possible, it is sure to be built someday”, Prof Kaku has established a hierarchy of “impossibilities”, separating those phenomena that are sure to remain science fiction from those which are likely to become reality at some point in the future.
Teleportation, telepathy, forcefields and invisibility are Class 1 impossibilities, meaning they are likely to be realisable within a few decades or at most a century.Class II impossibilities may take centuries or millennia to perfect, while Class III impossibilities are truly impossible.

Class 1

Teleportation is likely to be achieved through “quantum entanglement”, a property that allows connections to be formed - and information transmitted - between particles many miles apart.
Applying the process to larger objects like people is just a scientific “engineering problem”, that is likely to be solved in time, Prof Kaku writes in his new book Physics of the Impossible.
Similarly, telepathy will be made possible by improved MRI machines that can effectively read minds, and electrodes that can then pass the information into the brains of other humans.

Invisibility will probably be achieved using a recently-built “metamaterial” capable of bending light rays, he argues. Alien life will most likely be discovered within decades as our ability to analyse the universe improves.

Class II

Time travel is a Class II impossibility because, while it need not break the laws of physics, science still has major knowledge gaps to cross to make it a reality, Prof Kaku believes.
“What makes them [Class II impossibilities] so difficult is that they generally require vast amounts of energy, and their underlying physics is not totally understood,” he writes in this week’s New Scientist magazine.
The research of Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and the physicist Kip Thorne has shown that time travel is theoretically possible, but no-one has yet found a way to produce the energy necessary to keep a “wormhole” open.
“This technology is only achievable for a civilisation significantly more advanced than ours,” Prof Kaku writes.
Parallel universes and travelling faster than the speed of light are also Class II impossibilities, he argues.

Class III
The only two science fiction phenomena which Prof Kaku believes are truly impossible - Class III impossibilities - are perpetual motion machines and telling the future (precognition), both of which break the fundamental laws of modern physics.
“In considering what the future may hold, then, we should keep an open mind to Class 1 and Class 2 impossibilities,” Prof Kaku writes.
“What is unthinkable today might not be forbidden in a few decades or centuries.”

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Leaked Pentagon Report: 2020 Britain will be like Siberia!

March 3, 2008

..Also nuclear war, drought, famine, riots and world anarchy.

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

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Shores of Ignorance

February 12, 2008

John Wheeler, an American Physicist, on mankind’s knowledge of the sciences:

We still live in the childhood of mankind, all these horizons are beginning to light up in our day: molecular biology, DNA, cosmology.  We’re just children looking for answers.

As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance

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Protection from Demons

August 24, 2007

Whilst bored at work the other day I was surfing Wikipedia and got engrossed in reading about all things ghostly; jinns, Ouija boards etc. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to do this as it freaked me out, some stuff stayed in my mind for days, started to think there were other worldly beings harassing me (not kidding, not the first time either but this isn’t the place to discuss details).

It’s shocking how wide the usage of Ouija boards, practice of séances, black magic etc is in the West. It’s estimated 40% of 15-25 year olds have used a Ouija board and nearly 10% were seriously psychologically scarred by the experience.

‘More‘ magazine in August 1996 reported on the findings of a Glasgow University survey. They estimated that as many as “1 in 10 people - 65% of them women - have been psychologically damaged by their (occult) experiences.”

It was surprising to see the number of celebrities who regularly dabble in occult practices. Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers, used an Ouija board and gained a fear of the number 621. This number also happens to be his birthday, June 21. He is convinced he is going to die on that day. Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell is said to have used an Ouija board to help him write songs, particularly “Keep the Right Profile” and “Hold On”. Also Gerard Way, the lead vocals of My Chemical Romance, has claimed to have had strange encounters with Ouija boards [source: Wikipedia]. Musicians seem to be quite drawn to demonic beings, or is it vice versa? But not just musicians.

I watched a fascinating documentary, Dangerous Knowledge, a few weeks ago (clip), it featured a famous German Physicist called Georg Cantor. Early on in his life he said God spoke to him and told him he was a messenger from God and his theories on the Infinity Continuum were given to him by God. From our ‘aqida we know Cantor was not the next messenger of God nor did God speak to him telling him so. Giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was not lying or wasn’t temporarily insane the voice he heard was most likely a shaytan or evil jinn. He eventually went mad (surprise, surprise) and was repeatedly institutionalised in his later life, he died in a sanatorium.

Was he driven insane by a mischievous jinni? It’s a trend in other similar cases where the unseen being helps the person somehow with knowledge, some of it true and beneficial but is invariably mixed with heaps of falsehood and evil, and the person almost always suffers some kind of psychological distress as a result. I wonder how many people are affected by the demons or unsavory jinn?

A visiting Shaykh once commented, whilst driving through Oxford Street in Central London (a very busy shopping area), that the place was crawling with Jinn. A Hadith from Muslim states Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) was reported to have said to a companion: “If possible, do not be the first to enter the market nor the last to leave it. It is the battleground of shaytan and he raised his barrier there”.

Granted, cases of possession and unexplainable phenomena from credible sources are relatively rare. This doesn’t mean the demons aren’t operating in more subtle ways, whispering suggestions into the mind. May Allah bless our Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) for teaching us the reality of these demonic beings and teaching us how to guard against them. Many Muslims may not even believe in the existence of demons, a problematic position as their existence is confirmed in the text of the Quran. If you don’t believe in something then you won’t feel a need to guard against it. Its said the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making people not believe in him.

Evil jinn tend to congregate in dirty place such as toilets that is why it is sunnah to say this prayer before entering toilets (entering with our left foot first):

اللُّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْخُبْثِوَالْخَبَائِث

Allahumma inni ‘audhubika min al-khubuthi wa al-khabaith

O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the male and female Demons.

Another du’a that if repeated 10 times in the morning is said to protect from demons until the night and if repeated in the night will protect you until the morning:

لا اِلهَ اِلَّا اللّهُ وَحْدَهُ لا شَرِيكَ لَهُ ، لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَ لَهُ الْحَمْدُ وَ هُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

La illaha ilAllahu, waHdahu la shareeka lahu, lahul Mulku, wa lahul Hamd, wa Huwa ala kulli shaiy’in Qadeer

(There is No God But Allah Alone, who has no partner. His is the dominion and His is the raise, and He is Able to do all things)

The last du’a reassures us it is Allah who is control of everything , nothing happens without His will. Allah has more right to be feared than any jinn.