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A voyage
Very quickly,the English nation should feel seriously insulted for
losing the proportion of rotations to orbital circuits insofar as the curators of Harrison's watches feel that one 24 hour day falls out of step with one rotation or what amounts to the same thing in a detailed way - the equatorial Earth turns at a rate of 15 degrees/1037.5 miles per hour and its 24901 mile circumference in 24 hours. "The Earth rotates relative to the Sun once a day but also in the course of a year, due to its orbit, makes one additional rotation around the Sun. Thus, relative to the stars, there is an extra rotation once a year. This amounts to a difference in the position of the stars in the sky by about one degree, or four minutes of time, when viewed at the same time on two successive days." http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/astrono.../time#sidereal I will make it easy on all of you by explaining in the broadest details the trajectory of discovery beginning with the creation of the calendar system using the flooding of the Nile and the annual return of a specific star as the fundamental basis of all timekeeping followed by the creation of the 24 hour AM/PM cycle in tandem with the Lat/Long system which keeps days and rotations in sync and certainly no 'extra' rotation per year that exists only in the imagination of the hopeless.In fact,it takes no real explaining other than it is extremely foolish to assume that stellar circumpolar motion,as portrayed by that unfortunate paragraph above,can be a basis for explaining daily and orbital dynamics insofar as the references originally used for timekeeping translate days/years into rotations/ orbital circuits as a inviolate proportion of 1461 rotations to 4 orbital circuits or 365 1/4 rotations for one orbital circuit. I much prefer the history of how the Englishman John Harrison resolved the Longitude problem based on astronomical principles which have their roots in antiquity rather than the history of how one person managed to screw up the references by lunging at a poor conclusion using the calendar based Ra/Dec system and stellar circumpolar motion.A mistake is forgivable as long as it is not noticed but one as large as this one where followers imagine there is one more rotation in a year than there are days is impossible to conceal for any great length of time with history bearing down on the topic. God bless you all,it is a voyage of discovery as great as any taken by humans and take heart that while the error did originate in England so did the resolution of Longitude using the 24 hour AM/PM system along with the Lat/Long system. |
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