Why is our solar year imperfect?
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It has to do with the earth "wobbling" through space. Also, earth's orbit around the sun is actually elliptical and not perfectly round.
How would you count a quarter day in the span of 365 evenly? And, that would mess up the fun for people born on 29FEB...
My sundial keeps absolute, perfect time...on a good day...
I guess God's got you on that one. lol
Who says it isn't? Maybe we just still have to find out the perfect way of measuring time ?
It should have been 100 or 1000 days in a year. Metric stuff is easier.
Because a real day is not precisely 24 hours..We would have to divide time into micro-seconds to be precise and man does not have that kind of patients. Besides that is what leap year is for, to make up the difference.
Life was much simpler in a geo-centric universe. Darn Science!
From an electron circling a proton, a moon circling an earth, and earth circling a sun; a galaxcy circling a universe...the only thing out of order is the 'human being' who has free will.
A day is a man-made construct - an artificial division of time for the sake of convenience, so time can be broken down into smaller units. On Planet Earth, I do believe that the precise amount of time elapses from the Summer Solstice to the Autumnal Equinox to the Winter Solstice to the Vernal Equinox; each being a precise quarter of the actual solar year! Of course, each planet has a different solar year, based on distance from the sun!
Who says it is perfect only if it is 365 days exactly. Remember, God can operate outside of the time. : )
What makes you equate 365 with perfection? You questions resounds with an ancient Greek philosophy mentality. Complexity does not equate with imperfection. So it varies a few minutes every year; and the orbit of the moon will never match exactly into the length of the year; so what?! Who says it has to? How is that imperfect? Who determines what is perfect and what is not?
The only imperfection I'm aware of, is what the Apostle Paul mentioned, that the universe is doomed to futility (Romans 8:20) -- as scientists agree, the universe is wearing down, and will eventually be uninhabitable, if God doesn't change it beforehand.
Yet one of the reasons God created the universe was for it to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18). So, it is certain that he WILL change it. And it too will last forever.
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