Earth's rotation

[webby]

Time doesn't exist. It is a concept created by the human mind in order to make sense of what we do in terms of placing it into a sequence of events. It also helps in terms of commercial activities. The fact that we have 24hours in a day, 60minutes in a hour, and 60seconds in a minute is effectively a made up system. Sure we measure a second by so many vibrations of a caesium atom, but that's just so we have a constant. It's like the concept of a metre. You can actually go and see the original bar which was decided would be used as the basis of the metric system. The length of this bar was called a metre, which was then divided into 100cm and 1000mm.

As to why the book says 23 hours 56minutes, that's because we have a time system which is not reliant on the earth's rotation around the sun, which varies ever so slightly due to reasons stated by Tom Allen. This figure is an average.

 

[onasilverbike]

roman calendar only had 10 months of 30 or 31 days.
winter was extra days beyond those calendar months.

I believe the Roman calendar is known as 'The Julian Calendar' no doubt after the eponymous Cesar and the modern calendar as 'The Gregorian Calendar' after Pope Gregory xiii, yep its here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

However, the months being lunar cycles more or less maybe there should be 13 months in the Calendar?

 

[Kitch]

I can't believe how badly wrong you have all got this, all enlightened people know the Earth revolves around Cook$ drunken weekend posts

 

[Cook$]

I can't believe how badly wrong you have all got this, all enlightened people know the Earth revolves around Cook$ drunken weekend posts

You're damn right it does...

But think, if you had the time back, you'd only waste it.

 

[ListerOfSmeg]

Geeks

 

[RainbowShooter]

Geeks

Rather interesting compared to other things on here. Reminds me of the plane on the treadmill theory.

 

[ListerOfSmeg]

Rather interesting compared to other things on here. Reminds me of the plane on the treadmill theory.

True. I'm not complaining in any case, my lady's a physics student and would beat me up if I implied anything negative

 

[Rider]

I believe the Roman calendar is known as 'The Julian Calendar' no doubt after the eponymous Cesar and the modern calendar as 'The Gregorian Calendar' after Pope Gregory xiii, yep its here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

wrong(ish).

search wiki properly.

the Julian calender was the original 12 month calendar, later ammended and replaced with the gregorian calendar.

the original roman calendar predates this by several centuries.

 

[Buddha 3]

Here's another wierd one, as there's 12 months in the year and January is the 1st month and december is the last month explain this.

1. January
2. February
3. March
4. April
5. May
6. June
7. July
8. August
9. September - Sept = seven
10. October - Oct = eight
11. November - Nov = nine
12. December - Dec = ten

It seems December was the 10th month

It's emperor Augustus' and some other dude's fault. They ensisted on messing things up by each adding a month named after them.

 

[Skeet]

And...as my wife instilled in me when reading one of her many, many Greco Roman Novels...Julius Caesar, was actually Gaius Julius Caesar.

That is Gaius Caesar, of the Julii. So first name Gaius, last name Caesar of the Julii clan.

Sort of.

Did you know, that if the Christians want to see Jesus at his proclaimed second coming, he best hurry up, because he will be gone pretty soon when we enter the age of Aquarius. So he has about 72 years to show up, or those people will have to wait another 23,920 years. By which point, they may have realised, that in fact, they were going to have to wait that long anyway, seeing as Jesus wasn't a man, but a part of the Astrological cycle. And they will be bored of the taunts for the 2160 years that he is back for.

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