Re: best questions at star parties?


Gil wrote:
What the hell happened to this topic? It started out pretty well, but
then it got all messed up.

It means that the most fundamental astronomical question regarding the
correlation between the standard pace of a clock in sync with the axial
rotation of the Earth,generally known by most people as 24 hours/360
degrees is answered incorrectly by people going to star parties and
calling themselves astronomers.

Here is an appropriate question - how come things descended to such
abysmal intellectual and intutive depths when astronomy was once the
most noble of human disciplines and admired by people .

Most people here,for the first time, are seeing how the original
pre-Copernican Equation of Time principle of the equable 24 hour day
was adapted to the heliocentric principle of axial rotation at 15
degrees per hour.The adaption is one of the greatest achievements of
Western civilisation and although much has to be done in terms of
putting more details on the Equation of Time system using the motions
of the Earth and the Sun alone as a reference,it will prove to be the
greatest astronomical discovery of the millenia so far - the
re-discovery of the Western heliocentric heritage from the older and
noble astronomical traditions .

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