Earth Deceleration theory likely a farce

With the advent of astro programs that can be used to check ancient
astronomy texts, there is a suggestion that Seleucid Period texts were
purposely altered to facilitate historical revisionism, that essentially
being a 13-17 adjustment in lunar times. Thus when eclipse events from the
Seleucid Period are used to guage the Earth's rotation this 13-16 hour error
was observed and taken for face value as an observed event, rather than a
predicted and adjusted event. The ultimate result was a presumption that
the Earth's rotational speed was faster and thus compared to current earth's
rotation was decelerating. Essentially the programers just divided that
extra time up over 2500 years until it was down to zero.

BUT...if you use an Egyprian reference from the time of Rameses II or from
some of their records, we find the length of the year is exactly the same as
it is now. The Egyptian year was 12 months of 30 days each, then they
introduced 5 days to the year. An image of Rameses II is placed in a way
that the sun strikes the statue on his birthdate, which is still happening.

So you have the Egyptian confirmation confirming the precise length of the
year back to 1250 BCE which is the same length of the year we have now,
remarkably. Compare that to the current earth's rotational variance or
deceleration and it isn't declereating at all. It is quite consistent to
within a millisecond! Yet, the delta-T decreases by 3 minutes every 10
years in the 6th century. The delta-T that decreases to zero in 1683 is
around 8 hrs 30 minutes!

So if we presume the earth was rotating that fast, 8 hrs 30 minutes faster
than it is now, then on top of the extra 1 day that accumulates now eveery 4
years, you accumulate an extra day every 3 years. In other words, the year
in 1240 BCE every year is 365 days and 14 hours 30 minutes. So in 2 years
the you are already over a day at 366 days and 4 hours. The next year
would be 365 days and 18 hours. The 4th year would be 366 days and 5
hours. Thus with this current theory, the years would vary every other
year betwen 365 and 366 days. That is inconsistent with Egyptian records
and practical astronomy.

MEANING? Meaning all this talk about the moon's drag on the earth's tides
is just a joke. The earth maintains its specific rotational speed that is
so specific, even an atomic clock has to have a leap second added every so
often. That's precision. But we are talking seconds and milliseconds now,
not 3 minutes every 10 years!

So what is wrong? What is wrong is the trust of astronomers or those who
publish eclipse times and canons in the large body of astronomical texts
from the Seleucid Period. But those records are now suspect of revisionism,
including manipulation of lunar times?

WHY?

Basically, when the revised timeline was compared with the original
timeline, there were some critical eclipse events that coincidentally
occurred in both timelines. So it was necessaray to destroy all
astronomical records, though 99% of them were indeed destroyed during the
Seleucid Period. Some of those records were used to make new "copies" of
texts that represented the new timeline matched to old astronomical
observations. Of course, if you can produce an original reference and not
a new copy, it would tend to confirm the new dating. The only problem with
eclipses that did occur in the right years in the revised chronology is that
the precise time of the eclipse was not specific. This was the incentive to
fake the lunar time to take advantage of this coincidence. We've
discovered, though, that two eclipse events, one found in the SK400 and the
other in the Nabon 18 text adjust by the same time adjustment to make the
events textually accurate. The Nabon 18 references the moon setting while
eclipsed in the 2nd year of Darius. The SK400 dates an eclipse beginning
"one hour before midnight." These were the times in the original timeline,
but not in the revised timeline. But by adjusting the lunar time by 16
hours, both these events became textually correct in these original
references. That is, the 16 hours adjusted the lunar eclipse in 523 BCE to
occur one hour before midnight and the same 16 hours caused the 554 BCE
eclipse to be in process at moonset. After this adjustment was made,
thousands of eclipse texts were created introducing the extra time.

Down the road, of course, when these texts were used to determine the
Earth's rotational position, the Earth appeared to rotate 12-16 hours
faster, so the presumption was a theory of deceleration of the Earth's speed
due to lunar drag on the tides or whatever they could come up with to
explain it. But right now, the Earth is not decelerating at all and it was
rotating the same speed during the reign of Rameses II.

In other words, if you judge the Earth's deceleration based on the current
rate of deceleration combined with the length of the Egyptian year during
the reign of Rameses II, you'd find neglible difference. But if you use
Seleucid Period texts, the revisions in the lunar times, which were not
observed but predicted introduce a lot of extra time (or remove extra time)
leading to presumptions of a variable earth rotational speed.

But now that we know historically about the revisions and see in some texts
the corrected times, we understand the earth's rotational position is
represented just in these Seleucid Period texts which were created purposely
to authenticate the revisions that were made in astronomical references that
required specific lunar timing to remain on the books vs being destroyed.

This is quite fascinating, but I'm wondering why astronomers or cosmologists
haven't noticed the Earth is not decelerating now, certainly not 3 minutes
every 10 years like it was in the 6th Century BCE, and yet in the same
sentence praise the Egyptians for having precisely timed the year, which is
exactly the length of the year we have now, completely contradicting the
delta-T.

Or look at it this way: The Seleucids who revised their astronomical texts
to match the revised chronology of the Persians scammed everybody with fake
lunar times. The modern astronomers, delighted to find all these texts
observed the distortion, presumed it was observed instead of fabricated and
figured the Earth's rotation was decelerating. So they divided that extra
time up over 2500 years. But with that theory, they had to also keep adding
time the further you go back, meaning the Earth's speed keeps getting faster
and faster and faster and the length of the year keeps having more and more
days because the days are allegedly shorter. But this is not what the facts
show.

It is possible, however, to adjust to some original observations that were
found and it would be interesting to see if those implied original
observations likewise reflect the current Earth's rotational speed.

Keep in mind, that the only means possible of even assuming the length of
the day in the ancient past is based on ancient records.. Those records are
in conflict. Egyptian records show zero deceleration. Seleucid records
imply a dramatic deceleration, but only because of faked lunar times.
Today's current earth rotation also shows zero deceleration.

So why are astronomers lying to us?

L. Wilson


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