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Magnetic Mecca Madness!

Thanks, Mojo. Good to know this guy has a track record of being out to lunch.
 
I was just wondering if it was an Egyptian version of Monty Python...
 
It does have that look and feel to it. I fear it's more along the lines of The 700 Club: Muslim Edition.
 
Ah those Haemogoblins causing problems! :)

I love this comment from the Green Footballs.....

The United States gives Egypt about $2 billion a year in foreign aid, and they don’t seem to be spending much of it on their educational system.

YBW
 
Thanks for the link to Randi, Grimoire. Anyone know if we should be worried that this "scientist" is associated with The Egyptian National Research Center?

Please tell me this organization is the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Institute for Creation Research. Then again, that might just give it more cred in that part of the world. Yikes!
 
Ignoring the fact that he is obviously completely nuts, his first problem is that the world doesn't run off GMT, it runs off Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which itself is based on International Atomic Time (TAI), currently with a 32.184 second offset due mainly to a day not being an exact number of seconds. The time is actually based on the observation of quasars, so it really doesn't matter which part of Earth you measure it from.
 
Cuddles said:
Ignoring the fact that he is obviously completely nuts, his first problem is that the world doesn't run off GMT, it runs off Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
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Oh sure, bring facts to bear!

If I had more patience with this guy's delusional arguments, I'd research whether or not Mecca was on the magnetic equator.

The magnetic equator is similar to the geographic equator, except it's rotated somewhat to account for the fact that the earth's magnetic poles do not coincide with the geographic poles.

There is a significant likelyhood that Mecca does not lie on the magnetic equator. Even if it did, I'm guessing a number of other sites and cities would, too, being that it would--you know--circle the globe!

But facts and stuff like that aren't where this guy lives.
 
phyz said:
There is a significant likelyhood that Mecca does not lie on the magnetic equator. Even if it did, I'm guessing a number of other sites and cities would, too, being that it would--you know--circle the globe!
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That, and the fact that the Earth's magnetic field is constantly changing, and so the magnetic equator would also change. I was unable to find any nice maps of the magnetic equator, but the few very low res ones I did come across showed that it is quite likely that Mecca lies on or near it.

Having said that, he is still a loon.
 
Speaking of facts, does anyone have any idea what on Allah's green earth Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid was talking about when he mentioned "in Greenwich, the magnetic field of Earth is 8.5 degrees"? (reference) (Somehow, too, 8.5 degrees of arc become 8.5 minutes of time later in the article, but that's a matter for a different post.)

It is not the magnetic declination through Greenwich, England. That's more like 6ºW. (And the declination in Saudi Arabia is about 4ºW, if anyone cares.)
 
Luke T. said:
And Phil Plait leaps onto the fatwah list! :D
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The title alone should be enough for him to receive death threats from the fundamentalists.

Some of the younger posters here may not recognize the phrase as a greeting in Paul Rubens's "Pee-Wee's Play House."
 
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