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To: onedoug

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.


5 posted on 03/31/2015 9:20:18 PM PDT by sagar
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To: sagar

Particularly at the Planck scale.


6 posted on 03/31/2015 9:22:45 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: sagar

“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.


8 posted on 03/31/2015 9:30:07 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: sagar

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.


11 posted on 03/31/2015 9:51:59 PM PDT by stormer
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To: sagar
You're joking, right?

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.

12 posted on 03/31/2015 9:57:30 PM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: sagar

“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.


17 posted on 03/31/2015 10:42:38 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: sagar
There are also 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not.


18 posted on 03/31/2015 10:58:07 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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