[time-nuts] Jeopardy questions

[David Forbes]

At 8:02 PM +1100 10/15/08, Neville Michie wrote:
>I am sorry that this question has been so difficult to ask, but there
>are so many arbitrary distortions
>of the observation of time that it has become a very fuzzy concept.
>cheers, Neville Michie

It is perhaps phrased best as a Jeopardy question. (Jeopardy is a TV 
game show in which the answers are phrased as questions to match the 
questions which are phrased as answers.)

Q: 31556925.252202
A: What is the orbital period of the Earth in seconds?

Q: It depends on a lot of things political and earthly
A: How many seconds are there in a year?

It is indeed amusing how the word "year" so muddies this simple 
parameter of celestial mechanics, by inserting politics into the 
question.

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