The Theory of Perpetual Motion

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The Theory of Perpetual Motion

• Imam Jafar Sadiq (as)
• Reference The Great Muslim Scientist and
  Philosopher,
• Jafar As-Sadiq

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Everything is in motion

• Imam Jafar Sadiq (as) has said that everything in
  the Universe, including inanimate objects, is
  always in motion although we may not see it.
• This theory was unacceptable in his time.
• However, today this theory is a scientific fact.
• Every object in the Universe is in motion.
• Motion is the essence of being. If there is no
  motion, there is no existence.

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Two kinds of motion

• There are two kinds of motion in every object
  motion inside the atoms and perpetual vibration
  within the molecules.
• The molecules vibrate from zero to ten trillion
  times per second according to the degree of
  temperature.
• In 1738, Swiss physicist and mathematician Daniel
  Bernoulli published Hydrodynamica, which laid the
  basis for the kinetic theory of gases. In this
  work, Bernoulli argued that gases consist of
  great numbers of molecules moving in all
  directions, that their impact on a surface causes
  the gas pressure that we feel, and that what we
  experience as heat is simply the kinetic energy
  of their motion.

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Matter cannot be destroyed

• Imam Sadiq (as) also said that it seems to us
  that when a person dies, his actions and
  movements come to an end. However, this is not
  the case.
• The matter will be converted into energy.
• Even the smallest particles of the human body are
  converted from matter into energy and they will
  continue to move in the form of energy till the
  end of time.
• The physicist says, that it is impossible to
  destroy the energy. There is no such action with
  which energy is lost.
• Matter can be converted to energy while energy
  can be converted into matter. In essence there is
  only driving factor behind the two appearances
  Motion.

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Time is nothing but motion

• Imam Sadiq also said that we feel the passing of
  time because of our internal movement.
• Similarly our sense of space is due to this
  movement. Without it we cannot feel the passage
  of time and have a sense of space.
• Scientists today realise that time is nothing but
  motion. All is motion, the things have a
  different amount of motion, so some actions are
  very fast and some less.
• There is no absolute time. Everything is relative.

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Einsteins relativity theory consistent with our
Imams theory

• Everything is in motion. As you sit in the
  Imambargah, you are actually in motion around the
  center of the Earth because of the rapid rotation
  of the Earth on its axis.
• The Earth is in motion around the Sun, the Sun is
  in orbit around the center of our Galaxy, the
  Galaxy is moving toward a large group of
  galaxies, etc.
• When you say something has a velocity, you are
  measuring its change of position relative to some
  reference point which may itself be in motion.
  All motion is relative to a chosen frame of
  reference. That is what the word relativity''
  means in Einstein's Relativity theories.