At 8:02 PM +1100 10/15/08, Neville Michie wrote: >I am sorry that this question has been so difficult to ask, but there >are so many arbitrary distortions >of the observation of time that it has become a very fuzzy concept. >cheers, Neville Michie
It is perhaps phrased best as a Jeopardy question. (Jeopardy is a TV game show in which the answers are phrased as questions to match the questions which are phrased as answers.) Q: 31556925.252202 A: What is the orbital period of the Earth in seconds? Q: It depends on a lot of things political and earthly A: How many seconds are there in a year? It is indeed amusing how the word "year" so muddies this simple parameter of celestial mechanics, by inserting politics into the question. -- --David Forbes, Tucson, AZ http://www.cathodecorner.com/ _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
