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A Muslim researcher by the name of Yehia Wazeri claims, in this video [1] and this paper [2], that the region of Mecca lies in the center of all land masses, thus making this holy place geographically special.
To demonstrate this claim, he shows the maximum distances between this region and the ends of North America, South America, Oceania & Antarctica are roughly equal (with an error of a few hundreds of km).
He also tries to show that this equidistance pattern occurs at lower scales as well:
1. between Mecca and the geographical centers of those continents;
2. between Mecca and the nearest coasts of the New World & the farthest ends of Asia;
3. between Mecca and the farthest ends of Europe & Africa.
A Muslim researcher by the name of Yehia Wazeri claims, in this video [1] and this paper [2], that the region of Mecca lies in the center of all land masses, thus making this holy place geographically special.
To demonstrate this claim, he shows the maximum distances between this region and the ends of North America, South America, Oceania & Antarctica are roughly equal (with an error of a few hundreds of km).
He also tries to show that this equidistance pattern occurs at lower scales as well:
1. between Mecca and the geographical centers of those continents;
2. between Mecca and the nearest coasts of the New World & the farthest ends of Asia;
3. between Mecca and the farthest ends of Europe & Africa.
Are his results as significant as he claims? Is his methodology valid and consistent?
[1] [embedded content]Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60VwMPQcANw [2] Wazeri Y. ... Read even more
