Why we need to keep adding leap seconds

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 12:30:59 -0700 (PDT), oriel36
wrote this crap:

On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 8:50:24 PM UTC+1, Lord Vath wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:22:59 -0700 (PDT), oriel36
wrote this crap:

On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 5:12:41 PM UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:

Voodoo and bluffing that can be found anywhere and no
doubt will continue.

For those really wishing to find themselves in the presence
of astronomers and astronomy, they can consider the
original event from which all human timekeeping radiates -

".. on account of the procession of the rising of Sirius by one
day in the course of 4 years,.. therefore it shall be, that the
year of 360 days and the 5 days added to their end, so one
day shall be from this day after every 4 years added to
the 5 epagomenae before the new year" Canopus Decree 238 BC

The trick is to ignore the rising and setting of the stars above
and below the local horizon and switch perspective to the line-of-sight
observation where the stars move in sequence behind the
central Sun and its glare -


Defining the Earth's orbital position in space using the first
appearance of Sirius far enough to be seen at dawn one day
uses rotations as a guide and all the nonsense of atomic clocks
is not going to obscure this great astronomical fact where
timekeeping and cyclical dynamics merge to a close approximation.

I think you should bring this matter to Star Fleet and suggest the
probable corrections. Commander Data should be of great help. I'm
sure nothing is of more importance to them. Make it so!





There are a bunch of middle Eastern military thugs
taking sledgehammers to the ancient structures in the
city of Palmyra presently as they see nothing only
the propagation of their own agenda to the exclusion
of everything else. Like you,they are unable to see the
importance of a heritage as it fits in with the
development of human civilization and all the more
dismaying as the Western version of attempting to
destroy the links between timekeeping and the great
motions of the Earth goes on her day in and day
out without the slightest sense of wrongdoing much
less apologies.

People made the decision to walk from this forum
rather than face the issues which can be resolved
in a reasonable way. As for you, well.....



I think you should bring this matter to Star Fleet and suggest the
probable corrections. Commander Data should be of great help. I'm
sure nothing is of more importance to them. Make it so!



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There are so many major issues involved and really none of them are centered on the false assertion of a leap second and a slowing rotation. What began with the fictional creation of solar rotation vs sidereal rotation now inevitably ends with a very unstable narrative that threatens productive and creative research just as the tools of the internet are becoming available.

The most obvious issue is accounting for the apparent motion of the stars due to the orbital motion of the Earth. This means dropping the apparent circumpolar motion from horizon to horizon and focusing on the progression of the stars behind the Sun and its glare, something which is only possible at dawn and twilight.

People have already adopted the natural perspectives which split the inner planets from the outer planets and how we see those planets move around the Sun -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap011220.html

http://www.astropeumayen.com.ar/imag...ases100507.jpg


The original heliocentric astronomers still retained the older geocentric apparent motion of the Sun through the constellations but as that prevents the splitting of perspectives between inner and outer planets as seen from a moving Earth, it is crucial that the Earth's orbital motion is accounted for in appreciating the motion of the inner planets using the apparent motion of the stars behind the Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeQwYrfmvoQ


The shoddy assertion of a leap second and a slowing rotation begins with stellar circumpolar motion, a celestial sphere, RA/Dec or whatever way people are accustomed to the daily apparent motion of the stars thereby drowning out the original geocentric/heliocentric perspectives which recognized only the apparent motion of the Sun through the constellations.

A leap correction effectively bears the relationship between the daily and orbital cycles . The primary leap correction of one rotation after four cycles of 365 rotations brings the Earth close to its orbital position it began 4 cycles earlier ( this is why the appearance of Sirius was used as an orbital marker) . The next leap correction is the precession of the Equinoxes even though this is obscured by the original heliocentric system which gauged the motion of the Sun through the constellations rather than the more productive line-of-sight motion of the stars behind the Sun as the Earth moves through space. There would be a continuous refining beyond the precession of the Equinoxes observation when the proper principles are understood .