Re: accruate "sundials"


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> jtaylor wrote:
> > <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > So,frames of reference are little more than pretending to give
> > > yourselves choices you do not have,
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> > WHY don't we have these choices?
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> The axial rotation of the Earth through 360 degrees is an independent
> event hence the cycle of dawn,noon,dusk,dawn...,

But don't these events depend upon the sun, and so this rotation cannot be
considered as independent of the sun?


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