It has been proven that the Earth, along with the universe, has, and is, expanding and is much bigger than it was 1000's of years ago. Then it is also proven that it will take longer than 24 hours for the Earth to completely turn in a full day . That means that it would take longer for the Earth to move around the Sun. Which means our days arent 24 hours and our years are longer than 365 days. (Daylight savings and leap years dont cover it....that is done routinely)
2007-08-08 07:38:58 · 8 answers · asked by Curi-us 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Believe it or not, the length of a day does not affect the length of a year. They are completely separate entities. One deals with the rotation of the Earth on its axis, the other deals with the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
Another way of saying it is that the Earth has completed 2007 orbits around the Sun since the start of the calendar year zero.
2007-08-08 07:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The calendar is a human construct, and as long as we all agree on it, there's no doubt that it's 2007. There's considerable doubt as to whether the year 1 really marks the birth of Jesus, as originally intended, but that's due to sloppy record keeping in the years after the fall of Rome, and not to any physical effects.
The expansion of the universe has no measurable effect on the size of the Earth or the length of our day or year. The length of a day gets very slowly longer, due mainly to gravitational interaction with the moon. They add a leap second every couple of years to compensate for this. The length of the year is not measurably changing.
Daylight savings time is just a shifting of time zones to shift an hour of summer daylight from the early morning, when few people are up, to the evening, when most people can use it. It has zero to do with correcting for anything. Leap years are just to adjust the calendar to the fact that the year is not an integer number of days. This is a static condition and has not changed significantly in historical times.
2007-08-08 15:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The years that the planet Earth goes by is from when Christ was born until now.
Like you have heard people say like one billion BC, this means one billion years before Christ was born.
But they teach in public school that there is no God, does this make any sense at all?
But if you go by Galactic time, then the Earth is very young.
Lets say that you live to be one hundred years old, in Galactic time, you have only lived one one mullions of a mega second, you can't even blink that fast!
2007-08-08 15:23:56 · answer #3 · answered by Universe V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The expanding universe has no effect on our solar system, it is not expanding, the distance from the Earth to the sun is the same as it was thousands of years ago.
2007-08-12 14:38:28 · answer #4 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The year number would depend upon which calendar system you are using. The Gregorian calendar, the Chinese calendar, the Hebrew calendar, the Mayan calendar....
Where are you getting your information?
2007-08-08 19:07:30 · answer #5 · answered by Troasa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I'm still stuck in the late '60s...still listening to my Sgt Pepper lp...
2007-08-08 14:44:47 · answer #6 · answered by tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why there is a Feb. 29
2007-08-08 14:43:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not..by my calculations..its 1984.
2007-08-08 14:42:31 · answer #8 · answered by Victoria. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋