It’s common knowledge that there are 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. WRONG! NASA actually states, on their website, that there are 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 04.09053 seconds in one earth day. For arguments sake, let’s just say that there is actually 23.94 hours in a day. NASA based this off of the knowledge that the Earth’s speed around its orbit is 67,000 mph and spins on an axis of 1,000 mph. Now, lets observe how oblivious we really are. This is a formula my co-worker, Scott, and I have come up with to find out where we actually are in time right now, according to NASA’s claim. Keep in mind that there are a few flaws, for example we did not take the Gregorian calendar into account, we were calculating by the American calendar, and that we used year 1AD as a starting point. Here is what we have come up with… By the way, if you plan to follow this, I suggest having a pen, paper, and calculator on hand for this.
(Note: / -indicate division)
365 (Days in a year) X 2008 (Inaccurate years that have passed) = 732,920 (24 hour days from 1AD – 2008AD not including leap year)
2008 (Inaccurate years that passed) / 4 (Every four years is leap year) = 502 (Days added for leap year)
732,920 (24 hour days from 1AD – 2008AD) + 502 (Leap Year Days) = 733,422 (24 hour days from 1AD – 2008AD including leap year)
733,422 X 24 (Inaccurate hours in a day) = 17,602,128 (Inaccurate hours from 1AD – 2008AD)
17,602,128 / 23.94 (Actual hours in 1 day) = 735,260 (Actual days passed from 1AD – 2008AD)
735,260 – 503 (Actual added days because of Leap Year) = 734,757 (Actual days passed from 1AD – 2008AD)
734,757 / 365 (Days in a year) = 2013.3
Which, by our calculations, would mean that 2,013 years have passed from year 1 AD to 2008 AD. By the same calculations, if we estimated how much actual time has passed from 1,000,000BC (assuming leap year didn’t take effect until 1AD) aproximately 1,004,519 years have passed from 1mBC to 2008 AD.
We are actually ahead of the calendar because the shortened day gives us unaccounted for hours at the end of the year. Which means the year is actually shortened by the concept of the hours in a day.
Keep in mind that our calculated numbers were rounded. However, what we have here, given it’s flaws, is a rough estimation of how much time has changed for the simple reason that we wanted to use 24 hours instead of 23.94. Taking everything we did not either think about or consider, it still shows an immense shift in our spectrum of time. This can also show the nonsense of Global Warming. Nature does not follow our time line. As I stated previously, there is a seasonal climate shift occuring (which is another way of saying nature is just being nature). Stop thinking so human about the way nature works. By making rules we are trying to control everything, only to be pointed out by Phil Unofficial, that we actually control nothing.
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Again, NASA isn’t saying we have 23.9 hours in a day, they are saying we have 23.9 hours in a single revolution, which is completely correct.
Something very interesting that your math has proved is the huge difference between the days we’ve counted since 1AD vs. the the amount of times the earth has revolved.
Again, we don’t count a day as a single revolution though.
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Wow, all that to get to global warming? lol
I’m not sure exactly how many are going to actually follow all that math, but I did at least. A 24 hour day is based on the stars and suns positions in the sky, not the rotation of the earth. In your calculations you are neglecting to take into factor the rotation of the earth around the sun. Adding that into the mix give us the extra four minutes back and thus gives us the 24 hour day again.
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“…Earth has rotated once, it has also moved a little in its orbit around the Sun, so it has to keep rotating for about another 4 minutes before the Sun SEEMS to be back in the same place in the sky that it was in exactly a day before” – NASA
Read the article again…. We are basing our day on the time the sun SEEMS to be back in the same place the day before. We’re not sure its in the same place, it just appears that way.
Tisk Tisk….You should read more carefully… and stop thinking so human about time…… It doesnt exit.
Well how else can one truly measure time other then by observed appearances? You can’t describe a single day as simply a single rotation of the earth or we run into the the exact problem you find in your article. Our measurement of time is a man made system, but to say time doesn’t exist at all is silly. Events would not appear to be linear if it wasn’t for the progression of time and that alone proves that time does exist.
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I never said this formula was perfect. I know its flawed and stated that in the article. I was wrong when I said time doesn’t exist, it does…just not on the scale that we use it. Nature has its own clock throughout the universe. Our sense of time is inaccurate according to the rest of the universe. The point is that we created and follow a time system that is not entirely accurate.
I know I personally can guess the time of day and often be correct within a minute or two, if not guess perfectly. I know a lot of people can do this having not seen a clock for hours on end. For an inaccurate time system, humans sure are in tune with it.
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.60 (hours left over in a day) X 365 days in a year =
201 minutes per year
201 X 4 (years for every leap year) = 801 minutes per 4 years
801 / 60 minutes per hour = 13.4 hours per year
Global Warming is real.
the concept of measured time is real and yet not. time does pass, but our measurement is based in arbitrary systems.
it’s all a plot to control man for 18 hours a day and kow where they are the other 6.
CRALO IS JERICHO
When the Dinosaurs were around there were 22 hours in a day. Now there is 24…. Time changes. Our time system as humans is flawed. It is a way to attempt to control something we have no control of. Like organized religion is an attempt to explain why we are here.
We cannot expect earth and nature to follow our concept of time. which is why global warming is a fares.
The articles I write are not to be taken literally… I stated that in the first one. Its just an attempt to get people to start thinking a little more about the philosophy they live by.
By the way Crocodile Dundee read time by the sun too.
Time its self isn’t changing but the hours in an earth day are due to our orbit. I still don’t fully understand what you think is flawed about our measurement of time, can you think of a better system then the one we have?
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I know its our orbit that is changing the hours. I stated that in the intro of my article (What did I say about reading more carefully)
I never said I had a better idea to keep time…Did I? I accept and follow the one we have. I was just bringing out the fact that according to NASA we have 23.9 hours in an earth day, and just wanted to see how much time has passed according to that idea.