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On Apr 21, 6:18 pm, "TR Oltrogge" <troltro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (2) Elapsed Time
>
> The earth rotates on its own axis approximately every 23 hours 56
> minutes 4 seconds (a sidereal day). So
> even though the observer is fixed in geographic latitude and longitude
> his effective longitude increases
> by 360 degrees every 23h56m4s.
I still think it is remarkable that there is a large section of people
who have actually found a way to believe the nonsense of a
correlation between the Earth's rotation through 360 degrees and the
value of 23 hours 56 min 04 seconds.If axial rotation is constant,and
it has not being isolated as an independent motion to be checked ,the
value will almost certainly be 24 hours or,in other words,it will
nowhere near 23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds.
Surely somebody has an interest in how clocks were used to determine
location on the planet through theiolate inv correlation of 4
minutes of clock time for each degree of geographical seperation
making precisely 24 hours/360 degrees.
As latitude on the planet is easy enough to determine,a specific value
in miles was assigned to each degree depending how far from the
equator or poles a person determined his position to be -
http://www.alexmorgan.com/miles.jpg
It was East to West that was so difficult to determine which is why it
was important to have accurate clocks which could maintain a standard
pace and not run fast or slow .Using natural noon as a benchmark,and
using the correction which equalises variations in natural noon to an
average 24 hours and keeps the 24 hour cycles elapsing into each
other,great men exploited this principle and overlayed it on
terrestrial geometry.when they created the system after Copernicus
discovered axial rotation to be the cause of the daily cycle ,they did
not know why the natural noon cycles were unequal and it was
irrelevent for the principles on which the correlation between
clocks,the axial cycle and longitudes are dependent.
Is it so difficult to see how the natural noon benchmark provides the
basis for the Equation of Time tranfer of the average 24 hour day to
the axial cycle as a 'constant',not as an observed occurence but
simply as a convenient assumption used to allow clocks to measure
distance,the still the basis of the GPS system.Even allowing that the
vast majority here subscribe to the Piltdown man syndrome where
proponents were allowed to die off peacefully (took 40 years to do
it),I find it hard to believe that not one individual has intelligence
to admire what our ancestors achieved and how they achieved it,first
the creation of the 24 hour day and then the heliocentric adaption to
longitudes and terrestrial geography.
There is so much junk in what you wrote,the unfortunate thing is that
everyone will applaud you.
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