Years Were Longer 1.3bln Years ago: Chinese Scientists

The Peoples Daily - Science Edition ^ | 7-22-2003 FR Post | Editorial Staff

[vannrox]

Hum....interesting.

[RightWhale]

The day was shorter, but the year was the same. The moon was closer, too.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[staytrue]

If you use their numbers, it comes out to 8760 hrs. in a year now, vs. 8100 hours in a year then. So the year was shorter then.

I think this makes sense as the orbit of earth is slower than the sun's revolution, over 1 billion years, the earth orbit might have moved farther out and made the year longer.

I read that the 2 martian moons are inside geosync (marssync?) orbit so they will eventually crash into mars and both are suspected to be asteroid captures. Our moon is outside geosync orbit and will gradually spin away from earth.

[Tribune7]

If years were longer 1.3 billion years ago wouldn't that mean that 1.3 billion years were longer than 1.3 billions years and wouldn't that mean that years weren't really longer 1.3 billion years ago.

This might be an interesting topic for the libertarians on one of the WOD threads.

[Mr.Clark]

Sounds like another attempt by the godless commies to denigrate the Bible.

[dpa5923]

self ping for later read.

[taxcontrol]

... and I would STILL be a day late and a dollar short.

[jlogajan]

If years were longer 1.3 billion years ago wouldn't that mean that 1.3 billion years were longer than 1.3 billions years and wouldn't that mean that years weren't really longer 1.3 billion years ago.

In 2003 dollars?

[Nick Danger]

... and I would STILL be a day late and a dollar short.

But if you had bought an ounce of gold 1.3 billion years ago, you would still be able to buy a Roman chariot.

[aruanan]

Bump to you on a cool-sounding technique.

[blam]

Yup. Thanks for the ping.

[Paleo Conservative]

The day was shorter, but the year was the same. The moon was closer, too.

The moon appeared much larger in the sky, and total eclipses would have been more common.

[Tribune7]

That would be the next project. Fixing the CPI for a year longer than a year.

[LibWhacker]

People who complain that there aren't enough hours in the day might have preferred to live 1.3 billion years ago.

Pass. I think the highest form of life 1.3 billion years ago was a paramecium or something like that.

[Skywalk]

Talk about rubbish.

This really is an attempt to change how we view the currently accepted time scale advanced by SCIENTISTS, not theologians or the willfully blind.

The Bible has no bearing on either timeline.

[SunkenCiv]

A blast from the distant past ping. Tribune7 has a great point up there. Thanks go to VannRox for posting this topic, and to LiteKeeper for reasons that are mundane, but may seem mystifying. See also the FR topic When the Days Were Shorter.

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[farmfriend]

ping

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP - the number of hours in a day is based on the rotation of the Earth. For the days to be shorter, the Earth would have to rotate faster...and that would have prevented life from existing. Poppy-cock