On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 7:52:55 PM UTC+1, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 10:20:18 AM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
you now get to explain to your empirical buddies that absolute/relative time
is just an expression of the timekeeping facility and equalizes the
variations in the natural noon cycle to a 24 hour average and into the
Lat/Long system -

How does that differ from what Newton wrote that you quoted?


So now you recognize Newton's description of the Equation of Time which is good as you know more than the relativity clowns who never knew what absolute/relative time represents.

So go ahead, explain to everyone what the difference between the natural day and 24 hour day is reflected in absolute and relative time -

"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the equation of time. For the natural days are truly unequal, though they are commonly considered as equal and used for a measure of time; astronomers correct this inequality for their more accurate deducing of the celestial motions...The necessity of which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is evinced as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter." Newton, Principia

The others are not so stupid as to be drawn into the description so scream away, you get to recognize the Equation of Time which is a timekeeping facility and not a definition of time.

The truth is that a sci-fi mentality is so vapid and lacking foundation that it is a waste of my time.