Saturday, August 25, 2012

Q: If one day is not exactly 24 hours and is in fact 23 hours, 56 minutes, shouldn't the error add up, and shouldn't we see 12 a.m. becoming noon?

You're right that a "sidereal" day is about 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds. But this is not a day in the everyday sense.

A sidereal day is how long it takes the earth (on average) to make one rotation relative to the faraway stars and other galaxies in the sky.

If you find a star that is directly above you at midnight one night, the same star will be directly above you again at 11:56:04 p.m. the next evening.

Similarly, if you were sitting on the star Proxima Centauri looking through a powerful telescope at earth, you would see Toledo, Ohio, go by every 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.

However, we don't keep time by the faraway stars -- we measure time by a much closer star, the sun! And we are actually in orbit around the sun, orbiting in the same direction that the earth is spinning on its own axis. From our perspective, the sun goes a little slower in the sky because we are also orbiting around it.

How fast are we orbiting around the sun? We make one full orbit every year, or roughly 366.25 sidereal days.

So after a year, the faraway stars will have done 366.25 rotations around the earth, but the sun will only have done 365.25 rotations. We "lose" a sunset because of the complete orbit. (The extra quarter day is why we need a leap year every four years.)

So there are 365.25 "mean solar days" in 366.25 "sidereal" days. How long is a "mean solar day"? Let's do the math: One sidereal day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds, or 86164 seconds. Multiply this by 366.25 sidereal days in a year, and you get 31557565 seconds. Divide by 365.25 solar days, and we get that a solar day is.... 86,400 seconds. That's 24 hours exactly!

It's this "mean solar day" (24 hours) that is the normal definition of day.

If you want to do the math more exactly, a sidereal day is 86164.09054 seconds, and a tropical year is 366.242198781 sidereal days. That works out very closely.

(P.S. Unfortunately, the earth's spin has been slowing down because the moon is sucking away the earth's energy. Every time the high tide of the Atlantic Ocean slams into the east coast of North America, the earth slows its spin a little bit. The definition of the second is based on the speed the earth was spinning back in 1820, and we have slowed down since then. As a result, we occasionally have to add in a "leap" second to the world's clocks. See http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB112258962467199210-lMyQjAxMTEyMjIyNTUyODU5Wj.html?mod=wsj_valetleft_email)

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  1. So after a year, the faraway stars will have done 366.25 rotations around the earth, but the sun will only have done 365.25 rotations.

    Isn't that a wrong statement.

    Shouldn't that be: "So after a year, the earth will have done 366.25 rotations around the faraway stars, but will only have done 365.25 rotations around the sun."

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    1. No, because we can take the Earth as the centre of the universe (relatively speaking). Since historically (but also PRACTICALLY today!) we observe motion relative to our own frame of reference, the centre of which is the Earth, not the sun or a star. (Obviously we rotate around the sun and with the sun around a galactic centre, but from our perspective we are at the centre)

      Hence the stars appear to rotate around the Earth, just like the sun apears to rotate around the Earth. Just like the rails and the trees appear to move when you are on the train and everything on the train with you appears to be still.

      Hence the difference between a sideral and a solar day: one is based on the RELATIVE motion of the "fixed stars" around the Earth and the other the relative motion of the sun.

      (btw the stars are caled "fixed", because they appear not to move at all... since they are so far away. Hence before modern technology it was very difficult to detect any motion of the stars, since a perceptible change in the position of the stars might be detected only between quite long time spans, centuries or millennia even.)

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    2. Actually,the sun moves away from the center of the universe. As it moves,the planets "try to escape the gravitational pull from our star" . There is "drag and push " energies. Also the moon doesn't "spin"around the earth. As the earth "travels" around the sun,the moon "weaves" a path,around earth,around the sun and rotates so the same side faces earth. Quite a statement for there being a GOD! No man could do this.

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    3. well I think theis (*this) is obsruse becuswe (*because) whe are trying to lie to us the earth doeasn't spin because it is flat you sillies the sun and moon and stars orbit around us.

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    4. Yes, well of course if a man couldn't do it, it must be god. You've figured it out! No science here! Just god! (idiot.)

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    5. "Drag and push energies..."

      Just wow.

      Please don't say 'God did it' when you clearly don't understand any of the smallest fundamentals. Just because you don't understand doesn't make it magic.

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    6. First of all every point in this universe is it's centre so there is no centre around which the sun is moving. The sun is actually revolving around a huge black hole which is situated at the centre of our galaxy ( not universe). Secondly, no planets are trying to escape the gravitational force, the gravitational force is what makes planets revolve around their stars. Finally, the moon also rotates around it's axis and I don't think that god intervenes in any of these physical laws anymore and he must have let the universe evolve according to these laws.

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    7. Before reading this article, I entered a question, "Why is the day not exactly 24 hours?" While I found the message here very well written and I learned a lot. My question is still not answered.

      My problem and this question are quite similar. One day represents the amount of time it takes for the Sun to appear in the same point in the sky one day from now. Or in terms of a Sun dial, when the shadow on the Sun Dial appears at the same place twice, one day has elapsed. If the last statement is true, then why is our definition of a day so flawed?

      I get that a day back in 1820 was slightly different than a day now. This fluctuation makes it hard (or at least harder) to come up with a day that is actually 24 hours. With modern day technology having a day that is exactly 24 hours is certainly possible. What is preventing us from adopting this type of hour?

      Please forgive the tone of this message. I find it frustrating how hour falls short of its definition. Thoughts?

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    8. Kevin, it's because the time in a day actually fluctuates on a constant basis. A day today might be 24 hours and .72 milliseconds but tomorrow it may be 24 hours and .91 milliseconds and 5 months from now it may be actually ever so slightly under 24 hours. We have to add time every so often to account for the fact that our measuring for a day ends up being a fraction of a millisecond shorter than an average real day. If it was always the same amount shorter and never fluctuated, I think we would account for it with our abilities today, as you suggested.

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    9. @Michael Burton
      Yes, just because you don't understand things doesn't make it magic. I wholly agree on that.
      But if you did understand it, would you yourself believe that it was a result of a random accidental chance?

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    10. MAGIC ISNT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    11. Who was it that said that magic would be indecipherable from incredibly advanced technology? Or something along those lines? Its not god and magic, its an alien who got bored and said "screw it, lets see how far i can take this." Or whatever that would translate into in his/her alien language.

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  2. NO! That isn't correct either. Relative to other stars the Sun is (sort of) fixed. Because of the Earth's rotation around the Sun, the other stars APPEAR to rotate around the Earth. In fact, they don't. And the Earth would have to travel an incredible distance to rotate around a faraway star.
    The Sun's position to a faraway star is not really fixed - everything is in motion - but it does not play in this discussion.

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  3. There Are Actually 365.25 & There Are 24 & Almost 1 Extra Minute

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  4. ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG. WE ACTUALLY HAVE 26 HOURS A DAY, 13 HOUR CLOCK, BECAUSE THERE IS SMALL ISLANDS THAT NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVE THERE, THERE IS UTC+13 AND 14, SO WE HAVE ADDITONAL 2 HOURS, BUT WE JUST NORMALLY DON'T COUNT THE ISLANDS, SO WE JUST SAY 24 HOURS IN A DAY. SCREW YOUR SELF NOW, I'M DONE FOR NOW, BUT WILL BE BACK, I HOPE, I GUESS, BYE NOW.

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  5. ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG. WE ACTUALLY HAVE 26 HOURS A DAY, 13 HOUR CLOCK, BECAUSE THERE IS SMALL ISLANDS THAT NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVE THERE, THERE IS UTC+13 AND 14, SO WE HAVE ADDITONAL 2 HOURS, BUT WE JUST NORMALLY DON'T COUNT THE ISLANDS, SO WE JUST SAY 24 HOURS IN A DAY. SCREW YOUR SELF NOW, I'M DONE FOR NOW, BUT WILL BE BACK, I HOPE, I GUESS, BYE NOW.

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    1. this is the single greatest response on this topic.

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    2. I'm just going to say hi ( ͡o ͜ʖ ͡o)

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  6. I'm pretty sure there are 24.3 hours in a day,making 365.25 days in a year.The .25 adds up to one day known as the leap day every 4 years.However it doesn't add up to a full day,WHICH IS 24.3 HOURS.

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    1. Wow, your stupidity is truly impressive...

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    2. Leap year was created to help scientists fudge numbers to fit into theory of spinning round globe. If earth is a sphere it is 360 degrees dived by 24hrs= 15 degrees per hour. End of story only they have to change the story to fit their wrong model. They know if they keep 24 hr day noon will turn to midnight in 6 months.

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    3. The flat Earth model can't predict the length of days, the phases of the Moon, the need for leap years, the timing of eclipses or anything else. Come back when your model predicts something.

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  7. Just put the fucking number. You don't have to write an entire article about it fuckhead.

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    1. Wow! Your command of civilised speech is truly UNimpressive. Best that you keep the vulgar stuff for just you and your mates.

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    2. Andy: so right about vulgarity, I prefer civility, but please dont enter any spelling bees, you spell civilised,,,,,,civilized.

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    3. Mate, just because a man puts an 's' in his words instead of a 'z' doesn't mean he cannot spell. Snelt isn't the only fuckhead in this thread.

      People from other countries exist, and have different spellings than American English (simplified). Are you going to shit on my oxford comma as well? Read the Chicago style guide before you jump off a cliff.

      Kind regards,
      #Snelt-did-nothing-wrong.

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    4. no bad word i'm a kid not a ault

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  8. I thought the hours in a day were just however a person wants his or her clock calibrated ,time a night on a power pole from sunrise to sunrise and have a clock computer programmer divide that into how many hours minutes and seconds you want , a digital watch is just a computer program basically. anything a person wants ,

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  9. Hah, very nice post, respect.

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  11. This entire model is wrong and very easy to prove so. If it is noon on Jan 1 and the sun is directly overhead, i.e. you are facing the sun, and as we have concluded, except for brainiac above who thinks there are 26 hours in a day, the rest of us know there are basically 24hrs in a day. We can also say this model of the sun and the earth makes 1 full complete 360 degree rotation in that 24 hours. Now fast forward 180 days to about July. It is now noon again, and you have made exactly 180, full 360 degree turns. You are also exactly 180 degrees from where you started on January 1. Problem is you are facing 180 degrees opposited the sun in complete darkness with the sun on the opposite side of the earth, yet it is still noon. It doesn't work no matter what you do to try and make it so. It's a little fact they have always hidden in plain sight. Now, ask your self why your education programs, your teachers, and your governments have lied to you and told you the the earth is a round ball that circles around a sun your entire life. Simply it can not be.

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    1. I just randomly had this thought earlier in the evening and my friends couldn't grasp what I was tryig to explain to them. It seems like such a stupid thing to try to cover up, but at the same time seems impossible for me to try to prove false. Can't find anything on the subject!

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    2. A full orbit around the sun (a year) is not 360 days. A non-leap year has 365 days. The earth rotates another two and a half times on its axis by the time it completes a full 180° around the sun.

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    3. Shaun, I have been pondering this same thing. And wondering Why if the true day is 23hr 56 minutes but we have a 24 hour clock, then in one year of 365 days we will have 1,460 minutes or 24.3 hours of time Ahead of where 365 rotations Should be. So that is one thing.

      The other is, with that in mind from a ball earth POV. I thought, if we keep the same facing point/direction for our full rotation. I know the thing about compasses but just work with me on this for a moment, ok... in 23hr 56 minutes the ball Earth will have made one rotation from N facing to N facing. We agree on this (I am using N only as a directional marker and not an actual direction, it could just as easily be 12 oclock on a clock face for this purpose). BUT, from Ball Earth POV, it will also now be slightly to the Side of the Sun, which was also originally N of our starting point but is now ever so slightly NW now compared to the start point. With the 24 hour clock we don't consider the rotation to be complete for another 4 minutes. In that time BE will have Spun just a small amount more and so while the True full rotation was 360 deg in 23 hrs 56 min, our 24 rotation is 360 + a bit. And with that extra Bit we now still face the Sun.

      I already showed that with the extra 4 minutes there is an entire day ahead of ourselves. But over 6 months that is 12 hours ahead of actual. That places us on the opposite side of the Sun to which we started in BE model, the True rotation starting face is facing Away from the Sun as you know and said, but we, with our 4 extra minutes are a full 12 hours out of sync with that and are facing in the opp direction, or To the Sun.

      In other words, after 6 months of BE rotations, the point which did face the Sun is now on the opp side of the Sun and facing away from the Sun. YOu are correct. BUT, because we added 4 minutes every day, and we go by that man made clock time, in 6 months time our man made clock has us a full 12 hours out of sync and thus we are in daylight instead of darkness, as it would be if we had used a 23.56 clock time.

      IN terms of clock minutes... actual 23.56 rotation is 1436 minutes in a day while we work on 1,440. After 182 days (or 182.5 for a 365 day year) the Earth 23.56 clock has done 182 spins for 261,352 minutes or 4,356 hours. The 24 hour clock will be 262,080 minutes or 4368 hours. The difference between the two is 12 hours. So we are 12 hours out of sync and facing 180 deg in the opp direction, and thus To the Sun.

      Does that makes sense?

      This still doesn't prove BE, but explains why we aren't facing away from the Sun after 6 months.

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    4. Yes you are standing in the dark with your back to the sun but you are looking at the same star you were 6 months ago but couldn't see because the sun was in the way. The day is made 24 hours so when you look at your clock at the same time each day the sun is approximately in the same place, although you may find that your Sundial and watch don't always agree with each other. You can work out why that is if you read about Kepler and planetary motion, because planets orbit in ellipses not circles and travel at different speeds around the orbit.

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    5. @ShaunTheSheep, i do believe your math is wrong as 180 full revolutions has the same effect as one full revolution; thus you could not have magically have turned an additional 180 degrees unless some unspecified force (such as you spinning on your feet) spins you. Please do the math, your statement is false.

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  12. hello thank you for the info

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    1. You are welcome. And for those that want to conclude that there are "really only 23 hr 56 min in a day" and you run the math and 4 min x 180 days = 720 min, then 720 min ÷ 60 min/hr = 12 hr which flis what side the earth you are on" well you need to then show me that every clock in the world is set to roll over at 23 hr 56 min., because as far as I know, every clock I own, and every clock I have seen has 24 hour exactly for every day, and I don't set my clock back 4 min every day, or 12 hours every 6 months because I find that when I went out at noon to water the garden, it was actually pitch black because the sun was on the wron side if a globe model earth. It is sheer nonsensical, and only works mathematically and not by emperical ovservation. Use your eyes and your brains. The globe model doesn't work. Try to debunk this. Hiding the truth is the greatest evil. I tried to debunk, and now this is why i now know the truth. https://youtu.be/7OLxiWFquus

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    2. Please prove me wrong and I will retract my comments.

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    4. ShaunTheSheep, think about it another way. Using a sidereal day (23h 56m 4s) instead of the current definition of 24 hour day would be great for astronomers. Why? Imagine that every night in January you go out on your south-facing deck at 11pm and look up and see the star Sirius. If we were using a sidereal day (1 exact rotation of the earth = 24 hours) everyday at 11pm you would be able to see Sirius in the exact same place in the sky. Fast forward to July. Since you are using a sidereal day, 11pm is daytime in July. You go out on your south-facing deck at 11pm and point to the exact spot where Sirius is. You know it's there. You can't actually see Sirius because the sun is out, but you know that it's there because on sidereal time the earth is always in the exact same place at 11pm relative to the stars. With using a 24 hour day as defined by what is practical for normal life, the stars move each night by four minutes so that the sun is high in the sky (i.e. crosses the meridian) at noon year-round. I don't think the scientific community would mind switching to 24 hours = Sidereal Day, but for normal people they like it being daytime at noon year-round.

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    5. Shaun, you have completely failed to factor in that the sun 'moves' relative to the earth due to our passage around it. Take a beach ball and a tennis ball. Put the tennis ball (Earth) on one side of the beach ball (Sun) and use a marker to draw a viewing location that day at noon, facing the beach ball.

      Now, simply move the tennis ball to the other side of the beach ball, and sure, the mark will face midnight.

      Instead, rotate the tennis ball 182.625 times following a very slightly elliptical path, and you will find a much different result.

      Proving to yourself the earth is a sphere is a simple matter requiring very little effort, the continuing insistence that the earth is flat marks you as either foolish or a troll.

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  13. Lol your using a clock that is set at 23h56min to roll they achieve this by playing with how long a second is.other why's you'd have to do daylight saving time alot.

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    1. 24 hr is a solar day, the time it takes the Earth to rotate once relative to the sun's position in the sky. Relative to a fixed reference frame outside the solar system the Earth rotates once every 23 hr 56 min, or once every sidereal day. A moving reference frame is not that hard to understand.

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  14. Sorry also in old days before your watch was a computer.everyone set there watches at high noon everyday. High noon being when sun is straight up.this isn't practical in today's world work times school so forth.I hope this helps

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  15. Jordan K, what you are missing is simple. It takes 23h 56m 4s for the earth to spin 1 full rotation (a sidereal day). Since we are going around the sun it takes roughly 4 mintues longer each day (24 hours) for the sun to be roughly at the meridian at noon from day to day. Having a 24 hour day based on the sun is much more practical than using a sidereal day. If we used a sidereal day 1pm would be daylight in summer and night in winter (or vice versa). So the earth spins 366.25 full spins each year, but we only see the sun rise and set 365.25 times. Our 24 hour day is based on seeing the sun cross the meridian at roughly noon standard time each day--which is more than 1 rotation per day (~4 minutes more).

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  16. Nobody HID the actual time and distance that the earth spins in 24 hours . These conspiracy theorists create their own fodder for foolishness. The factor lies in that difference between SIDEREAL DAY and a SOLAR DAY. Simply. A ''SIDEAREAL DAY'' measures the AVERAGE time it takes for the earth to make a 360 degree turn on its polar axis WITHOUT factoring its relative position to the Sun to a particular place on the planet. A Solar day ONLY measures the relative position of the Sun as pertains to it returning to the same degree in the sky RELATIVE to the perspective of an observer at any given position on the Earth. Hence SIDEREALLY every 1436 minutes the Sun would appear to fall back approx one degree each day... while from the perspective of the measure of a ''SOLAR DAY the SUN returns to almost the exact same position in the daily sky. What is not commonly known to the general public regarding the length of a day has been severely simplified to an AVERAGE for the layman. For in all actuality the motion of the earth is perturbed in its rotation and in its orbit . the EARTH SPEEDS UP AND SLOWS DOWN in its rotation upon its axis daily ... the OBLIQUITY of the Earth amplifies this apparent motion... and it appears to speed up and slow down in its orbital motion of the Sun because its orbital path is elliptical. The fact that its actually a COMPLICATED matter to have to explain is the reason why it is not PRIORITIZED or POPULARIZED in the public school systems. THE DOWN SIDE results from the fact the human mind develops on its own ACTUALLY and the more intelligent minds will seek to verify or debunk any information it desires to comprehend when inconsistencies or realized... consequently some of the 'more intelligent minds' are not equipped with ALL of the necessary details and the room for conspiracy is made to rear its head.

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  17. there's this thing called a leap year....

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    1. Is that the unlock code I meed for my Galaxy . Omg i been looking for 23.950819672 hours a day 7.0128 days a week!!! Give me a quick second and I will see if it works ..🤬'in 🐃💩 !!! FML . Hey.Maybe the serial
      numbers 50000144 on this $10 bill might work this time . Ya never know; Later

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  20. Can we just settle on what NASA says? It's 23.9 hours.

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  21. But as I calculated it, 86400 is just an approximate value, so doesn't it affect the succession of time as it goes by?

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  22. The reason why, on Earth, the length of a sidereal day is 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds while that of a solar day is approximately 24 hours is the way the Earth-Sun system works.

    1 Yr = 31,556,926.08 Sec

    31,556,926.08 Sec / 366.2422 (See line 10) = 86,164.09 Sec / 23:56:04.09 (Sidereal Day)
    31,556,926.08 Sec / 365.2422 (See line 12) = 84,600 Sec / 24:00:00 (Solar Day)

    The Earth has a rotational period of 23:56:04.09 (Relative to the stars), but while the Earth is rotating relative to the sun with a period of 23:56:04.09, making a year 366.2422 days, there is one less apparent revolution of the sun around Earth in a year because the earth is going around the sun, so a solar year is 365.2422 solar days.

    For everyday purposes, the solar day is the thing to use because it correctly reflects the apparent period of revolution of the sun.

    However, for more technical purposes where the Earth's rotation relative to other celestial bodies is concerned, the sidereal day is more useful because it reflects the Earth's actual rotation.

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  23. The day consists of 100 hours, an hour for 100 minutes, a minute for 100 seconds. Clock - a gadget on your desktop. 2 language settings Russian and English. The program has autorun, there is a pop-up menu with settings. Memorization of position and settings. Download link from the site: http://clock100.zzz.com.ua/

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  24. The day consists of 100 hours, an hour for 100 minutes, a minute for 100 seconds. Clock - a gadget on your desktop. 2 language settings Russian and English. The program has autorun, there is a pop-up menu with settings. Memorization of position and settings. Download link from the site: http://clock100.zzz.com.ua/

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  25. If its 23h 56ms & 4sc a sideral day what about the 3m and 56sc In a day....

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  26. I think, day is count to 12:00 Am to 12:00 Am. And night is count to 12 :00 pm to 12:00 pm...logically the 12 hours in a day. ..bcos day and night is different. ...it is my own view. ..not sure...

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  28. The sidereal day is a way to try and make mathematically possible how noon wouldn't be midnight 6 months from today. It is not based on observation, (just time it yourself). They just needed to make up 12 hours in half a year and, based on the math, 4 minutes is what one would need. Just compare the sidereal day against your local sunrise calendar and see if you can find those 3 minutes and 56 seconds we are supposed to be losing everyday. Also, the vast differences in the length of a day (sunrise to sunset) based on ones latitude makes perfect sense within the Ptolemaic system. Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe get the same treatment as Nikola Tesla, while servants of the establishment like Kepler, Copernicus, Newton, et al are hoisted up as idols of science.

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  29. Wait a minute! What you're all saying here is time and space might be the same thing!? Mind. Blown. Someone should come up with some kind of theory to explain this.

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  30. Can we just keep it simple. By adding 4 minutes a day, the sun will always be overhead at noon, everywhere on earth, throughout the year.

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  31. Actually you all are right and wrong because everything exist in your mind. You are seeing only what you tell your brain to see and that includes color, movement and time. Have a nice day. 😁

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  32. this long debate here proves non of us know anything about how nature works or the universe operates or the rules they follow. man is nothing. we barely just try to cope with our finite limited understanding.

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  33. M'mm' well' this of course is very interesting for perfect pricision timing of 1 solar year
    1 complete full orbit around the sun, earth's rotational orbital speed 1,700 kilometers per hour at the equator with a radius of 40,070 kilometers = 1 calander year 365.25 days,
    23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds
    in one day,
    Would it still work out perfect pricision timing for 1 year -
    the time, days, weeks, months,
    4 seasons if the time our clocks - we're new pre programmed digital clock's & watches - started at 12:00 am for every new day at 11:56 pm .4 seconds short of just 3 minutes 56 second's a day as it is naturally anyway, and without adding 1 extra day
    for the leap year cycle every 4 years or so all together would it still work perfect precision timing this way for 1 full year ?
    I think this is a good question
    that should be examined by
    mathematicians & scientists.
    Does anyone agree ?

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  34. M'mm' well' this of course is very interesting for perfect pricision timing of 1 solar year
    1 complete full orbit around the sun, earth's rotational orbital speed 1,700 kilometers per hour at the equator with a radius of 40,070 kilometers = 1 calander year 365.25 days,
    23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds
    in one day,
    Would it still work out perfect pricision timing for 1 year -
    the time, days, weeks, months,
    4 seasons if the time our clocks - we're new pre programmed digital clock's & watches - started at 12:00 am for every new day at 11:56 pm .4 seconds short of just 3 minutes 56 second's a day as it is naturally anyway, and without adding 1 extra day
    for the leap year cycle every 4 years or so all together would it still work perfect precision timing this way for 1 full year ?
    I think this is a good question
    that should be examined by
    mathematicians & scientists.
    Does anyone agree ?

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    1. Well' I didn't need this article published twice,
      maybe there's publishing display fault's technical issue's being for this reason.
      This article is so good it gets published twice, ha!

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  35. Does anyone know if we have gained or lost any time at all since the introduction use of the current leap year calendar system?

    Michael J Dixon
    Tweed Heads South NSW 2486
    Australia

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    September 26, 2019 at 2:06 AM

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  36. 24 hrs 59 min is original one day (1min×4year×365days) =1460min/60min=24hrs

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  37. Are these averages the mean, mode or median?
    None of the discussions center on the answer for each
    of the 365.25 (mean) days in a year. Every day is different.
    We are victims of old school thought, because we refer to
    "sunrise" and "sunset" because we USED TO believe the sun rotated
    around the earth. No, if I am correct, the earth spins making
    the "appearance" of the sun rising and setting. Use your head for
    something other than a hat rack.

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  38. Yes same was my question hence I came here to check answers , earth is revolving exactly 23hrs 56 mins 4 sec but we consider 24 hrs then the error everyday should add up and we should see sun overhead at midnight after almost 6 months as we only have leap year setting to adjust 0.25 day of 365.25 every year but what about every day we are not having that setting of leap minutes or seconds but then also I have not seen any day during mid year or whole life time where I saw sun overhead at 12am as as after full year error of every adds and turns to error of whooping 24 hrs and so after almost 6 months 12 hrs should bring the problem of sun coming at night but it never happened..
    So I checked on net then they said it's exact 24 hrs based on solar day but 23 hrs 56 min 4 sec based on side real day that is sidereal day is the day related to the rotation of Earth with respect to fareaway stars not the sun so 24 hrs is exact but now speed of Earth is reducing at that time we should have leap mins or seconds or other invention seriously..

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  39. Above comment is written by me please comment on my opinion..

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