IMAGE TRANSMISSION He who possessed knowledge of the Book said: I will bring it [the Queen of Sabas throne] to you before your glance returns to you. And when he [Sulayman] saw it standing firmly in his presence, he said: This is part of my Lords favour, to test me to see if I will give thanks or show ingratitude. (Quran, 27:40) [He is] the Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, “Be!” and it is. (Qur’an, 2:117) He who possessed knowledge of the Book told Prophet Sulayman (as) that he could bring the Queen of Sabas throne to him very quickly. This is a possible reference to the transmission of images with present-day advanced technology. Another verse on the subject reads: A demon of the jinn said: I will bring it to you before you get up from your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it. (Quran, 27:39) In our day, text, pictures, and films can be sent anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds, thanks to the Internet and advances in computer technology. For instance, carrying the Queens throne to Prophet Sulaymans (as) court very quickly may well refer to the fact that it will be possible to send a three-dimensional picture or image in the blink of an eye over the Internet. According to scientists, the teleportation of atoms and molecules, as well as larger bodies, may become possible in the near future. By this method, the items material characteristics are removed from one location and transferred in every detail and atomic sequence to another location, where they are reconstructed. If this technology becomes operational one day, time and space will no longer represent an obstacle to travel and objects will be able to be transported anywhere in a single moment without traversing any physical distance.184 In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) working with two European groups transported a photon. The scientists formed a copy of the photon by reading its atomic structure and then transmitted that information a distance of 1 metre. In another recent teleportation experiment, Ping Koy Lam of the Australian National University (ANU) and other researchers transmitted a laser ray a short distance.185 Indeed, according to a CNN report on 17 July 2002, a group of physicists from the National Australian University in Canberra split a laser ray and transmitted it several metres. Ping Koy Lam, the teams head, stated that they had not yet succeeded in transmitting matter in its atomic state, but that such a thing was not impossible and may become a reality in the future. According to a study published in the science journal Nature, Eugene Polzik of Denmarks University of Aarhus, and his colleagues performed successful experiments on a large number of atoms, using laser rays and quantum physics.186 In his analyses of teleportations potential, published in the journal Scientific American, Australian physicist Anton Zeilinger states that far more complex systems could be teleported without violating the laws of physics.187 As the Quran reveals in We will show them Our Signs on the horizon and within themselves until it is clear to them that it is the truth (Quran, 41:53), these scientific advances may represent a part of the technologies indicated in the Quran, all of which reveal its miraculous aspects.
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