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An important note about significant figures.
In science, there is a concept known as significant figures. That is when referring to a calculation, there is an appropriate way to describe it.
For example: If I weigh 187.43214545817489468548 pounds, it is appropriate to say that I weigh 187 pounds.
If I say that I weigh:
[li] 187.4321 pounds
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Are any of the above statements incorrect? No! They are all correct. It just depends on how many digits I want to use--that is how many "significant figures" I decide to label things by.
If I weight 187.8 pounds and tell you I weigh 188 pounds--I'm not lying to you. If I weight 187.99991 pounds and I tell you that I weigh 188 pounds. I'm not lying to you. Both are correct answers.
Now scientists themselves do this! They round. When discussing things they round.
The sources I showed you above say that the LM departed the moon at
54:01 minutes:seconds past the hour. The sources I showed you above say that we have collected 22 kg from the moon. And a popular science source I showed you above say that we have spent 22 hours on the moon's surface.
Would you be surprised to learn that the LM departed the moon at 54:00.8 seconds, that we actually collected 21.7 kg (some sources say 21.55 kg) of moon rock, that the astronauts spent 21 hours, 36 minutes, 20.9 seconds on the moon?
Did those sources above lie to you? I gave you a NASA source which said that the moon left at 54:01? Is that source wrong? Is NASA wrong? NO! That is just the significant figures they decided to use when discussing when the LM departed the moon. If you want to go into more detail, you can give more details, but using significant figures does not make you wrong. Saying it departed at 54:1 time is correct if you are only interested discussing when it departed at the level of the
second not at the level of a mili-second. If I tell you I weigh 187.499 pounds and then I tell you I weight 187.5 pounds, I did not lie to you, it is still true, I just was only telling you how much I weigh to only 1 decimal point. I could've have told you how much I weigh to 12 decimal points, but I chose not to.
Likewise, the scientific article I mentioned above, it says that scientists collected 22 kg of moon rock. They collected 21.7 kg (or 21.55 kg). The article isn't wrong, it just chose not to go to the decimal point. It wanted to give you a whole number. The same idea with the time they spent on the moon (36 minutes is closer to +1 hour than -1 hour).
This is what the Quran did. There are 1389 verses after Quran 54:1. Quran 54:1 corresponds to the minute and the second (and
ONLY the second, not the second AND the milisecond) that the LM departed the moon. 22 kg x2 corresponds to both the amount of moon rocks collected in kg and the amount of time we spent on the moon before we split it.
3 layers of significance! 3 Layers of improbability![Quran 41:53] We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?
