I love this topic, it has drove me mad for years. We have 360 degree's in a circle, which is meant to represent 1 orbit of the sun, problem being we have 364.25 days in a year, so what happened to the other 4.25 degree's. They were dropped to make maths conveniently work... We have been lied to forever and a day and the masses are simply too enslaved to give a toss :(
I think you are confusing some things there, the angle of a circle has nothing to do with the time it takes for the earth to circle around the sun. The orbit is more elliptical not that smooth circle anyway.
no i think its you who is missing something, sorry but what i stated was perfectly accurate ;)
your reply is that of something my topologist uncle would give. It is complete ignorance of the facts which is understandable from somebody who has been and got letters after their name in the subject that is supposedly the answer to everything, but its broken and needed breaking to work in the first place :/
I can't argue with you if you don't understand basic concepts. The angle of a circle has nothing to do with the time it takes for the earth to circle around the sun.
It's not the same unit of measurement, it's like comparing apples to stones. The observation that the number 360 and 365.25* are close to eachother is just coincidence.
ohh i understand the basic concepts, they just dont work in the real world haha :)
It's 365.25 days. The orbit of the Earth and its rotation are physical realities. Why would you expect to get a round number or even an integer when dividing these two?
I request tangible evidence to substantiate this theory please? until it has been proven without the use of BBB theories and maths or even computer simulations, it is simply another concept, but it is claimed that 360 degree's of a circle represent 1 orbit of the sun, ok so i was maybe a day out, either way there are more than 360 days in a year. They are not representative of one another, yet trigonometry would also be broken if there were anything other than 360 degrees to a circle, everything stems from this premise which is clearly wrong.
Of course this does lead into conspiracies, Im not going to try convincing you that the earth is flat, nor will i try to convince you it is a ball, at the end of the day until it has been proven beyond a shadow of doubt we could be anywhere, I know id rather put my money on us being in some magical realm than either of the other 2 theories myself, but it is still irrelevant its just another divide used to conquer us by government, same as maths, science and languages, there is a very good reason those are the 3 most important subjects in school ;)
The "degree measure" of a circle is a social construct. We inherit it from a long line of users. At some point someone decided to divide the full angle into 360 parts. It's completely artificial. Maybe they thought there were that many in a year but it is much more convenient than 365.25 in a full ange!
I'm not disputing the convenience of it, that is pretty much my point. :D