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The 360-Day Year |
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As it turns out our solar system is like a titanic clock, winding down a little bit every single year. Most people are aware that 360° forms the perfect circle. This has been the geometric standard since time in memorial. For building circular structures and for navigation. At some point in the not so distant past it is more than likely the Earth traveled one degree per-day around the Sun. So that, a true calendar year would be made up of 360 days, 12 months of 30 days. We have lost 5.25 days since the dawn of history. Basically the earth has slowed down on its course around the sun by 126-hours per year. Which is only about 35-seconds slower per day than the ideal 360 degree orbit. When you break down the earth's speed degradation in to such small numbers as 35 seconds per day for a mere 1.45 seconds per hour, it's not difficult to imagine the 360 day year in our recent past.
If our childish use of arithmetic hasn't completely numbed your senses, you might be seeing the implications of this. Science hasn't provided us a logical explanation for why planets are rotating around stars in the first place. Let alone offer us an explanation for why they appear to be moving slower and slower in an observable amount of time. Gravity by itself is inadequate to explain it. Is it possible that planets were wound up to speed? Or is it perhaps more likely that planets are jumpstarted at a set speed? Want would define it? Could planets be forged at terrific speeds and slow down their entire lifespan? If so, how could this explain the complicated Moon system and ring system of the planet Saturn? It's tricky to visualize the initial formation of the Earth-Moon concert let alone the even more complicated moon systems of the gas giants in our solar system. This is precisely the same dilemma that science faces attempting to explain the formation of an atom. It seems quite likely that the planets and the stars move by a form of magnetism, and not by gravity.
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