Walter Ziobro, sir:>.....Therefore, the fundamental unit of decimal metric time
ought to be the time it takes light to travel one meter.
I am not sure if YOU "grasp rightly" the term METRIC vs Decimal notation. To me
Metric is What is related to METRE! Please see, my base contribution: The
Metric Second; V25 N4; pp. 152-157 published through Bureau of Indian
Standards, New Delhi in April 1973; inclusive of the term Nautical Kilometre
derived from 'hypothetical Earth' with 4-qyardants of 100-metric degrees
(grads) BUT that would also mean changing the trigonometric functions and other
allied equivalenets.My later works directed me to examine: Why not keep
90-degree quadrant x 100' x100" and rework the entire concepts, defining The
term - Decimal Second = 1/240000th of the day? This ensure the Day, Weeks,
current months in Gregorian calendar, Year UNCHANGED and the calendar be
capable to operate with 128-years, 400-years, 834-years, 896-years cycles
providing the BEST possible Mean Year values! More so, this link the ancient
Time count and the current time counts: 86400 x 600 sub-units :: 240000 x 216.
The Decimal (time) second and circular measure 90*60'x60" are equated to
90*100' x100"(decimal) i.e. 324000" are 900000"(decimal) - in circular measure
making astronomy easier.Regards, Brij Bhushan Vij
Wednesday, 2013 February 06H17:12(decimal)EST
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as long as you remember that
"October (meaning 8) is the 10th month; and
December (meaning 10) is the 12th BUT has 30 days & ONE
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Jul:30; Aug:31; Sep:30; Oct:31; Nov:30; Dec:30
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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 12:37:24 -0800
From: petersonwal...@yahoo.com
Subject: METRIC TIME MEASUREMENT
To: calnd...@listserv.ecu.edu
METRIC TIME MEASUREMENT
There has been some discussion on this list of late about decimal metric
time-keeping. It seems to me that a pure system of
decimal metric time must be universal. By that I mean across the entire known
cosmos. The most universal measure of time is
derived from the speed of light. Therefore, the fundamental unit of decimal
metric time ought to be the time it takes light to
travel one meter. This has been measured as 1/299792448 of a second. We
shall call this unit of time the light-meter (lm).
This converts to 3.335641 nanoseconds (ns). Therefore, 3.335641 SI seconds
would equal 1 giga-light-meter (Glm).
For the sake of convenience, I shall round this to 3 1/3 SI seconds.
Consequently, given that there are,
on average, 86,400 SI
seconds in a mean solar day, there would be 25,920 giga-light-meters
(86,400/3.3333...), or if you prefer, 25.920 tera-light-
meters (Tlm) in a mean solar day.
Now, if we are going to use a time keeping system that's independent of the
earth, or any celestial body or cycle, we can simply
start counting giga-light-meters, independently of terrestrial solar days or
tropical years. It would be like a digital clock that
would show a tera-light-meter every 3333.3333... seconds, or every 55.5555...
minutes, or every 0.925925925... hours.
What should be the epoch of such a system? We could start at the calculated
point of the Big Bang (13.772+/- 0.059 billion years,
or 4.346+/-0.019*10**17 seconds ago), but there's a problem with that: the
uncertainty of 59 million years. What to do? IMHO, the
best solution is to count the light-meters from noon of
January 1, 4713 BCE (Julian), the epoch of the Julian day numbers, and
just tack on the 4.346*10**17 seconds, or 130.38*10**24 light-meters to the
seconds, or light-meters that have elapsed since 4713
BCE. In this way, we can count precisely the seconds, or light-meters that have
taken place since the Julian day count began, and
just cobble onto it the best estimate of the age of the universe currently
calculated, ignoring the uncertainty.
I calculate that there have been 63.66746448 exa-light-meters (Elm) From noon,
January 1, 4713 BCE, to noon, January 1, 2013 CE
(Julian, i.e. January 14, 2013 CE, Gregorian). Hence, the universal
light-meter time on noon, January 1, 2013 CE (Julian) would
be 130380063.66746448 exa-light-meters (Elm). (These are rough calculations
that I made on a spread sheet; I am open to
correction, if I am off somewhere. The important thing is to appreciate the
conceptual framework.)
Of course, no one but the nerdiest teckie is going to keep time like that.
It's like trying to figure out the star date on Star
Trek every time you want to know what time it is. (BTW, does anyone know how
they did that, or did they just generate some random
number for each episode?) So, we should have some practical convention for
converting this massive temporal scheme for day-to-day
use.
Now, 25,920 is a very convenient number because it can be factored into
2*2*2*2*2*2*3*3*3*3*5, meaning that it can be divided into
many handy sub-units. So, there are many ways we can divide up the 25,920 Glm
in the mean solar day. For traditionalists, there
could be 24 hours of 1080 Glm, with 60 minutes per hour of 18 GLM each. For
the strict decimalist, there could be 10 deci-days of
2592 Glm, 100 centi-days of 259.2 Glm and 1000 milli-days of 25.92 Glm.
For the Octonauts, there could be 8 octant-days of 3240
Glm, 64 second-octant-days of 405 Glm, and 512 third-octant-days of 50.625 Glm.
For the duo-decimalists, there could be 12
twelfth-days of 2160 Glm, 144 second-twelfth-days of 180 Glm, and 1728
third-twelfth-days of 15 Glm. The possiblities are
immense.
There's no reason to mandate a uniform scheme on everyone, just so long as all
the units are defined by the Glm. It would be sort
of like in the US where any of the customary weights and measures are legal for
use, so long as they are defined in metric units.
Different strokes for different folks.
-Walter Ziobro
