The sight of grown adults trying to justify the 1898 science fiction novel 'The Time Machine' is more or less the same symptom of the inability to affirm that each 24 hour day is the same as one rotation of the planet. -

" ‘Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,’ continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. ‘Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. There is no difference between time and any of the three dimensions of space" The Time Machine , 1898


Projecting pseudo-authority may certainly be a dubious talent but it obscures the relationship between people and nature with a sense of time and space on a celestial scale. The difference between motions at a human level and the motions of planets and moons through space is a matter of vastness and longer term motions but with the help of time lapse and analogies, people can develop a genuine appreciation of this side of astronomy that has been lost to voodoo merchants.