Re: best questions at star parties?


Davoud wrote:
oriel36 wrote:
What about the whackos who imagine that the return of a star to the
same position in 23 hours 56 min 04 sec represents the rotation of the
Earth on its axis through 360 degrees .

Do you mean that everyone who knows that there are 24 hours in a civil
day -- but does not know about a sidereal day -- is a wacko? The number
of wackos in the world just increased exponentially. Everyone but you
and me and Danny Min, in fact. And maybe one or two others here.


The most fundamental astronomical correlation of all - the pace of a
hand sweeping across the face of a clock in sync with axial rotation
and to your shame ,none of you can give the correct answer chossing to
dither with a calendrically based sidereal justification.

How brilliant you all are ! what worthy inheritors of the magnificent
astronomical tradition stretching back to remote antiquity ! and you
come here and congratulate yourselves when not one of you can discern
the astronomical method which generates the 24 hour day and its
heliocentric adaption to axial rotation at 15 degrees per hour.





All things being equal this is how the cosmos appears to them

This is how the cosmos /appears/ to everyone. It requires specialized
knowledge to delve beyond that appearance. I really don't consider my
neighbors wacko because they don't go out to time stellar transits...

Davoud

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Specialised linguistics concealing subhuman conceptions and all
presented as being from the astronomical tradition of Copernicus and
Kepler.What did humanity do to deserve to see its achievements brought
so low notwithstanding that the original reasoning of Copernicus and
even the antecedent Ptolemaic astronomers is now so easily understood.

Whackos believe in a justification for axial rotation in 23 hours 56
min 04 sec and insofar as it amounts to nothing other than celestial
sphere astronomy,3 centuries of this empirical damage is not enough to
conceal the jewels of astronomy and the great people who made it so.

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