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Old May 20th 15, 08:29 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
oriel36[_2_]
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Even before the advent of clocks and watches, humans gauged events using rotations of the Earth. The foundation of timekeeping is based on the number of times the planet turns within an orbital circuit even if it was originally expressed as the number of days in a year. The ancient astronomers and ,in particular one brilliant man in antiquity discovered that a year can't be based on a consistent 365 day cycle but an additional day is required to maintain rotations to the fixed orbital points. This day/rotation is now February 29th and forms an inviolate proportion which references rotations to orbital circumferences.

When clocks emerged, the 24 hour day was based on the average noon cycle within the same 1461 day framework, again, observations are gauged using rotations with the appearance of the Sun followed by the appearance of the stars - this alone constitutes the only meaningful description of a day astronomically and for the purpose of terrestrial sciences.

The unwarranted creation of a 'solar day' and a 'sidereal day' completely obliterates the usage of the background stars and the central Sun as a reference for the orbital motion of the Earth. By using one specific astronomical event when a star re-appears from behind the glare of the Sun to determine the orbital position of the Earth,humanity was able to create a gauge using rotations to define the number of times the Earth completes a circuit of the Sun to a close proximity.

The 'leap second' is an extension of the 'solar vs sidereal' framework which still creates the notion that the planet turns 366 1/4 times per orbital circuit and it is exceptionally painful to witness for any rational person -

"During one orbit around the Sun, Earth rotates about its own axis 366.26 times" Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth







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Old May 21st 15, 02:58 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)

SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE

SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE DE L'IERS
OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS
61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France)
Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26
FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91
e-mail :
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc

Paris, 5 January 2015

Bulletin C 49

To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time


UTC TIME STEP
on the 1st of July 2015


A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:

2015 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2015 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2015 July 1, 0h 0m 0s

The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:

from 2012 July 1, 0h UTC, to 2015 July 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 35s
from 2015 July 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 36s



Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there
will be no time step at the next possible date.


Daniel Gambis
Head
Earth Orientation Center of IERS
Observatoire de Paris, France



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Old May 21st 15, 06:06 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
oriel36[_2_]
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On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 2:58:23 AM UTC+1, Sam Wormley wrote:


INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS)



It is not possible to determine constancy in the Earth's rotation within the calendar framework as Flamsteed and his contemporaries tried to do when rushing to a false conclusion -

"... our clocks kept so good a correspondence with the Heavens that I
doubt it not but they would prove the revolutions of the Earth to be
isochronical... " John Flamsteed

When they assumed that the Earth was into its next full rotation after 23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds it led to a belief that the Earth's rotation falls out of step with each 24 hour day as the accumulative 3 minute 56 second difference transfers to a gruesome notion still retained in empirical circles -

"During one orbit around the Sun, Earth rotates about its own axis 366.26 times" Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth


At the same time we have these academics telling everyone how accurate their clocks are leading to the assertion that the Earth is slowing, the academics can't determine the number of times the planet turns in respect to its orbital circumference even though that proportion was implied by the introduction of the leap day rotation.

Who,for goodness sake, could stand by and watch an entire society continue to make fools of themselves for an error that takes literally nothing to correct. The natural extension of the leap day correction which centers the Earth's rotation close to its orbital parameter is not a 'leap second' but rather the refinement currently taken up with the flawed notion of 'axial precession'.

Leap second adjustments are fine as long as they are recognized as a timekeeping facility within the calendar framework but not as a means to assert that the Earth's rotation is constant,slowing down or speeding up.


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Old May 21st 15, 06:08 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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There is zero point trying to debate any issue with Gerald. He doesn't answer questions, cannot change his views and it seems very unlikely he even reads what other people write!

Please consider joining the Oriel36 boycott!
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Old May 21st 15, 06:49 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
oriel36[_2_]
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In a general context there is a saying which is true -

"Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart"
Yeats

A spirited person is expansive in their outlook and breezes through the errors which confine the less spirited to contrived and meaningless ideologies.. The belief that the Earth's rotation is subject to an accurate clock is just one of a number of ideas that are upside down in an attempt to take away the magnificence of a spinning planet so people can gloat about how accurate their locks and watches are.

Instead of looking successful and confident with technologies, people choose to be small and narrow.
 




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