Why 432 in Ancient World?

Discussion in 'Human Science' started by IceAgeCivilizations, Dec 8, 2006.

  1. IceAgeCivilizations Banned Banned

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    Oh go back to sleep.
     
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    If you still don't get it when you wake up, and want to get it, I'd be happy to walk you through it.
     
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    A response like that pretty much confirms that you have no idea how precession and the radius of the Earth are related.
     
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    So tell me, how do you say precession and the radius of the Earth are related?
     
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    They are not.
     
  9. IceAgeCivilizations Banned Banned

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    You just said they were.
     
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    No I didnt. I said you didnt know how they were related.


    The reason you dont know how they are related is because they are not related in the first place!
     
  11. IceAgeCivilizations Banned Banned

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    I'll walk you through it if you like.
     
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    The why dont you do it instead of talking about it?
     
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    Ok, can you accept the premise that the ancients were aware of, and could measure, the rate of precession?
     
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    Supposing they did, what next? (And by rate you mean how long it takes for one complete precessional cycle).
     
  15. IceAgeCivilizations Banned Banned

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    Yes, so at 72 yrs/degree, you get 25,920 years for one cycle, right?
     
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    Divide the circle into 360 sections and you take 72 years to move through one section.
     
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    So using that rate, if you move 1/6th of the way around the Earth, the straight line connecting those two points is the same length as is the radius length of the Earth, right?
     
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    What two points? Where is point A and where is point B?
     
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    Any two points sixty degrees apart.
     
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    Yes but where are the points? What are they using as their frame of reference?
     
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    Their starting point from which to move east or west sixty degrees.
     
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    Which is located where? What point are you starting from? A star? A landmark? What?
     
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    It doesn't matter.
     

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