Posted on 03/31/2015 8:58:02 PM PDT by onedoug
Incredible (IMHO) exposition of the co-dependence of "evolutionary" minerology and biology.
Wow!
Rocks rock.
Minerals - from which rocks are so formed - even more so.
The first minerals: diamond and graphite, formed as soon as the universe became sufficiently cooled from the creation event.
God’s richness from the start.
Isn’t it coincidence that there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and a 24 hours to a day and it takes the earth 24 hours to rotate in its axis? All by design.
Particularly at the Planck scale.
Dr. Hazen is a brilliant mineralogist. Thanks for posting an informative lecture. Listen to what this guy says about mineralogical and biological histories of earth. Some 2600 mineral would not exist if there was no life. Dr. Hazen takes you from the formation of the earth from chondrite particles and meteors to the present. A great man and scientist.
“Isn’t it coincidence that there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and a 24 hours to a day and it takes the earth 24 hours to rotate in its axis? All by design.”
No, there is no coincidence at all, and it was all by Man’s design and not the Creator’s design. The Earth’s diurnal rotation was somewhere about 5 hours per day after the formation of the Moon/Luna. This 5 hour rotation has been steadily increasing ever since until it is now 24 hours per one day of rotation. During the days of the Dinosaurs, the rotation rate was about 18 and 19 hours per day. In the future the Earth’s rotation will be 27.62 ours per day. The neat fractional numbering we use today is due to Man’s arbitrary choice of using a decimal numbering system in conjunction with a 360 degree circle instead of the 100 radian degrees. The French Revolutionaries attempted to apply the decimal numbering system to the number of days in a week and more, but reverted to the customary system used today.
Thank you for saying what I was about to type far more clearly than I could have done.
Of interest?
Design by the Babylonians. They understood that the perimeter of a hexagon is 6 times the radius of the circle that contains it. And since they had a base 60 numerical system, they subdivided the six wedge shapes within the circle by 60, therefore 6x60=360. They then divided the day into 4 segments of 6 - basically sunrise until noon, noon until sunset, and the portions of night corresponding to that. Again, using base 60, these were further subdivided into minutes and seconds.
Actually, the Earth rotates 360 degrees in about 23 hours and 56 minutes. In one year, it rotates just about 366 and 1/4 times.
Look up “highly composite numbers.” The Babylonians and Sumerians achieved excellent results in mathematics and metrology with a base 60 numeral system.
That the Solar System offered astronomical periods that were close to highly composite numbers at the time that human civilization emerged is quite a coincidence.
To quote one of the audience:
"That's the longest trip in the shortest time I have ever taken. That was quite amazing!"
Well worth the a bit less than an hour it took to listen.
That was well worth the investment of time. Every now and again I’m reminded what an honor it is to be human.
You've GOT to be kidding me .... somebody KNOWS this stuff ?
“Isn’t it coincidence that there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and a 24 hours to a day and it takes the earth 24 hours to rotate in its axis? All by design.”
You -have- to be kidding. You could be on any planet, and divide whatever one rotation was by 24, and then by 60, and by 60.
bump for tomorrow
We moderns I think tend to underestimate some of the ancient peoples because they did not have our modern tools. But what some of the ancient people did or figured out is amazing.
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