Days
Commentator
The ability to keep track of time utilizes two functions: the clock and the calendar. In this friendly expose of human thought and development, I hope to cover both functions with a single post! (lucky you)
The Clock:
The passing of time is measured by the sun's rays striking our spinning earth in its elliptical orbit of the sun.
A host of logistics are at play including:
1) the axis that the earth spins on being attacked at changing angles by the sun's rays
2) the speed of the earth's rotation and its deviation by acceleration or deceleration in the earth's spin
3) effects to the same by any wobbles the earth's spin suffers
4) the net effect of the earth spinning into the orbit of the sun
Have you ever stopped to realize that #4 causes the passing of a full day for every year of orbit? If you waste galactic energy in the futile and worthless exercise of attempting to measure the exact duration of a second through nano technology (and our government does that) .... you need to account for that 24 hours of spin that results from the orbit of the sun. Since the earth is spinning into the orbit, you need to create a faster unit of time than would successfully measure the spin of the planet against a fixed location in space.
Thought you knew what a clock was, didn't you? A clock is merely a measuring apparatus that appropriates the passing of time, that used to be measured by the sundial, into units that span the entire breadth of the spin of the earth... a single day. The end user happily reads the numbers or sweeping hands, but the construction of the device needs to accurately measure the time that is actually passing on earth. So telling time is easy if you remain a simpleton and believe the devices sold you and adhere to their guidance... it's a tad more complicated if you do the whole function of telling time on your own.
The Calendar:
The passing of time needs a reference for the keeping track of months and years and decades and centuries and ages. Otherwise, all days are the same, there is no distinction between the days and nights of a spinning globe lost in space. Calendars provide that reference.
A host of logistics are at play including:
1) roughly 13 Lunar cycles per year
2) one oscillation between the tropics per year, creating four seasons
3) 12 zodiacs that provide for 12 ages per oscillation of the sun's vibration in its orbit of the galactic center
The ancients constructed the calendar and did so rather precisely. The ability to shoot an equinox is not as simple as you think. In order to take an accurate measurement of precession, one needs to shoot a line directly up into the stars and then shoot a tangent to the earth directly into the stars at 90 degrees to the first mark. Precession is not the result of the wobble of the earth, the earth has no wobble, it is a perfect gyroscope, it irons out wobbles in short order. Rather. what we are experiencing is the relationship of our star (the sun) to the surrounding stars in the galaxy as the whole pinwheel of stars spin in space. Don't ask me how anyone was able to prove that the galaxy is rotating, it would necessitate reference from other galaxies, a perspective we simply can not access from our tiny planet.
History of the Lunar Calendar (Link)
During antiquity the lunar calendar that best approximated a solar-year calendar was based on a 19-year period, with 7 of these 19 years having 13 months. In all, the period contained 235 months. Still using the lunation value of 291/2 days, this made a total of 6,9321/2 days, while 19 solar years added up to 6,939.7 days, a difference of just one week per period and about five weeks per century.
Even the 19-year period required adjustment, but it became the basis of the calendars of the ancient Chinese, Babylonians, Greeks, and Jews. This same calendar was also used by the Arabs, but Muhammad later forbade shifting from 12 months to 13 months, so that the Islamic calendar now has a lunar year of about 354 days. As a result, the months of the Islamic calendar, as well as the Islamic religious festivals, migrate through all the seasons of the year.
The chronicles of historians have served as our calendar, but they used to be set in the greater calendar of the stars and our journey through the zodiacs. An age consists of 2159 years, and the cycle of 12 ages represent the a single oscillation of the sun in its vibrating path around the center of the galaxy. We exist in a mature galaxy, our location is about half way up one of its arms, and the sun is thought to be 5 billion years old and to have made 20 orbits of the black hole at the center of the galaxy... this is better understood as a rotating pinwheel of stars, and it would seem that the stars are fixed by a radial of gravity that the black hole generates; the entire galaxy may be a function of that gravity extending from the black hole; IOW, galaxies of stars are the expression of black holes over time... the ultimate calendar of our existence.
The Clock:
The passing of time is measured by the sun's rays striking our spinning earth in its elliptical orbit of the sun.
A host of logistics are at play including:
1) the axis that the earth spins on being attacked at changing angles by the sun's rays
2) the speed of the earth's rotation and its deviation by acceleration or deceleration in the earth's spin
3) effects to the same by any wobbles the earth's spin suffers
4) the net effect of the earth spinning into the orbit of the sun
Have you ever stopped to realize that #4 causes the passing of a full day for every year of orbit? If you waste galactic energy in the futile and worthless exercise of attempting to measure the exact duration of a second through nano technology (and our government does that) .... you need to account for that 24 hours of spin that results from the orbit of the sun. Since the earth is spinning into the orbit, you need to create a faster unit of time than would successfully measure the spin of the planet against a fixed location in space.
Thought you knew what a clock was, didn't you? A clock is merely a measuring apparatus that appropriates the passing of time, that used to be measured by the sundial, into units that span the entire breadth of the spin of the earth... a single day. The end user happily reads the numbers or sweeping hands, but the construction of the device needs to accurately measure the time that is actually passing on earth. So telling time is easy if you remain a simpleton and believe the devices sold you and adhere to their guidance... it's a tad more complicated if you do the whole function of telling time on your own.
The Calendar:
The passing of time needs a reference for the keeping track of months and years and decades and centuries and ages. Otherwise, all days are the same, there is no distinction between the days and nights of a spinning globe lost in space. Calendars provide that reference.
A host of logistics are at play including:
1) roughly 13 Lunar cycles per year
2) one oscillation between the tropics per year, creating four seasons
3) 12 zodiacs that provide for 12 ages per oscillation of the sun's vibration in its orbit of the galactic center
The ancients constructed the calendar and did so rather precisely. The ability to shoot an equinox is not as simple as you think. In order to take an accurate measurement of precession, one needs to shoot a line directly up into the stars and then shoot a tangent to the earth directly into the stars at 90 degrees to the first mark. Precession is not the result of the wobble of the earth, the earth has no wobble, it is a perfect gyroscope, it irons out wobbles in short order. Rather. what we are experiencing is the relationship of our star (the sun) to the surrounding stars in the galaxy as the whole pinwheel of stars spin in space. Don't ask me how anyone was able to prove that the galaxy is rotating, it would necessitate reference from other galaxies, a perspective we simply can not access from our tiny planet.
History of the Lunar Calendar (Link)
During antiquity the lunar calendar that best approximated a solar-year calendar was based on a 19-year period, with 7 of these 19 years having 13 months. In all, the period contained 235 months. Still using the lunation value of 291/2 days, this made a total of 6,9321/2 days, while 19 solar years added up to 6,939.7 days, a difference of just one week per period and about five weeks per century.
Even the 19-year period required adjustment, but it became the basis of the calendars of the ancient Chinese, Babylonians, Greeks, and Jews. This same calendar was also used by the Arabs, but Muhammad later forbade shifting from 12 months to 13 months, so that the Islamic calendar now has a lunar year of about 354 days. As a result, the months of the Islamic calendar, as well as the Islamic religious festivals, migrate through all the seasons of the year.
The chronicles of historians have served as our calendar, but they used to be set in the greater calendar of the stars and our journey through the zodiacs. An age consists of 2159 years, and the cycle of 12 ages represent the a single oscillation of the sun in its vibrating path around the center of the galaxy. We exist in a mature galaxy, our location is about half way up one of its arms, and the sun is thought to be 5 billion years old and to have made 20 orbits of the black hole at the center of the galaxy... this is better understood as a rotating pinwheel of stars, and it would seem that the stars are fixed by a radial of gravity that the black hole generates; the entire galaxy may be a function of that gravity extending from the black hole; IOW, galaxies of stars are the expression of black holes over time... the ultimate calendar of our existence.