Free For all - Open Discussions and DebatesI am confusedMatthewGS, you don't have to appeal to ancient civilizations to see cultures dominated by superstition as any modern anthropologists can tell you there are peoples in remote areas of our world who worship the spirits of trees, animals, and etc.
However, you have elevated the physical sciences to the level of a superstitious faith. How many scientific concepts now accepted as the rule were considered irrational when first proposed by men who were considered lunatics? When the concept of an expanding universe entered the secular scientific arena, it was ridiculed. It was condescendingly nicknamed the "Big Bang", even though the idea did not include any kind of explosion. It was rejected as being too close to the "silly ideas" of the Bible. Since the Bible was 'clearly' mythology, there was no way the truth of the cosmos could come anywhere near what the Bible said happened.
[ http://www.setterfield.org/simplified.html/quote]Now since scientists define constants so their formulae will work is this real science or egotistical men refusing to adjust their thinking based on measurable data?
What is "time" and how do scientists measure "time"? Atomic Time
In the Systeme Internationale of units of measurements the second is defined as the duration of 9 192 631 770 cycles of a particular hyperfine structure transition in the ground state of Cesium-133. This definition was chosen to match as best as possible the length of the ephemeris second that was used before.
The SI-second only defines an abstract atomic time. To obtain a timescale of practical usabilty a device is required that attempts to realize the SI-second. Such a device is called an atomic clock. Real-word atomic clocks do not agree fully with each another. Therefore, the weighted mean of many atomic clocks -- distributed over various laboratories on the whole Earth -- is used to define the Atomic Time TAI (french Temps Atomique International). TAI is currently the best realization of a timescale based on the SI-second, with a relative accuracy of +/- 2*10^-14 (as of 1990). According to the General Relativistic Theory, the time measured depends on the location on Earth (or more precisely, on the altitude) and also on the spatial velocity of the clock. TAI thus refers to a location on sea level that rotates with the Earth.
http://www.maa.mhn.de/Scholar/times.html
In spite of all humanities acquired knowledge the most accurate calendar ever devised by man is the Mayan calander, which was developed by "superstitious" people centuries past. When it came to mathematics, time and calendars, the Maya were geniuses. Believing that time repeated itself in cycles, they devised two calendars, one ritualistic, which was used for religious celebrations and astrological predictions, and the other a solar calendar. Both calendars were based on the calculation that a year had a little more than 365 days, a more precise system than the Gregorian calendar. Following the movement of the sun, moon and stars with such accuracy, the Maya were able to predict such mystifying phenomena as eclipses and the Spring and Autumn equinoxes.
http://www.saxakali.com/historymam7.htm
It appears you are just as brainwashed by your superstitious faith in science as you accuse us of being who put our faith in God.
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