Debunking Lunisolar Precession - It's About Time

Karl-Heinz & Uwe Homann
 
Based on the original German article "DEBUNKING LUNISOLAR PRÄZESSION - Die Zeit fordert es"
 

This paper examines the anomalous time discrepancy of about 1223 seconds, which supposedly occurs every tropical year due to lunisolar precession yet disappears in our reckoning of time.

Science cannot substantiate the existence of this time discrepancy of more than 3 seconds per day. Apparently, the scientific community does not understand lunisolar precession in theory or practice.
The reason why it seems so difficult to understand the lunisolar precession model with its 20 minutes longer sidereal year might be the mixing-up of angular time measure and rotation time. If the mysterious 20 minutes* represent an angular measure of 50.26" per year, then a 360° orbit would imply 1296000" ÷ 50.26"/year = 25786 years (Platonic or Great Year). Hence, one degree takes about 72 years. However, in 72 years a total of 72 × 20 minutes = 24 hours have accumulated - i.e. a whole day or one complete rotation of the Earth. But this is rotation time, and Earth cannot travel through a distance of 50 arc-seconds in its orbit around the Sun without rotating on its axis.

Since both the tropical and the sidereal orbit period of the Earth have to occur in the same orbital path around the Sun, there seem to be only two possible scenarios: Either the tropical orbit period is a 360° orbit and the sidereal orbit period is about 20 minutes longer. Or, vice versa, the tropical orbit period is about 20 minutes shorter than the 360° orbit. Hence, an angular measure of 50.26"/year, which produces one complete rotation of the Earth in about 72 years, must produce in the same orbital pattern a rotation time difference of roughly 3 s per day with respect to the stars. HOWEVER, observations show that the maximum rotation time difference relative to the stars is only about 9 ms per day.

* (These yearly 20 minutes (approx. 3 s per day) arise ONLY because of an assumed "wobbling" of Earth's equator relative to the Sun. For instance, in a quarter Platonic year (approx. 6450 years) the equator, along with the seasons, shifts 23 1⁄2° vertical relative to the Sun. If winter turns into spring, a yearly time shift of approximately 20 minutes would occur (i.e. in 6450 years a quarter year [about 91 days], in 72 years one day and in one year roughly 20 minutes or 3 seconds per day. However, these 3 seconds are NOT real time that can be measured relative to the stars)

Astronomers argue that the relationships between angular measure, rotation time and orbital periods are mathematically consistent. They assert that the axis of the Earth wobbles (precesses) relative to the fixed stars AND relative to a stationary Sun.

We can easily visualize a wobbling Earth fixed in its orbit around the Sun, making one complete rotation as the axis changes its orientation in space by 360° . Two separate 360° angular measures that express time occur simultaneously - an angular measure describing a rotation and an angular measure describing a sine function (wobbling of the equator).

The 360° rotation represents a real physical time of ONE DAY, whereas the apparent occurrence of four consecutive seasons (wobbling of the equator) DOES NOT represent a real physical time of ONE YEAR.
A year without days, rotation or orbital time is an illusion!

If we free the Earth now from its fixed position and let it revolve around the Sun while it continues to wobble and rotate on its axis, nothing will change in terms of angular measure and the different measures of time. We only have to agree on the time interval of Earth's 360° orbit around the Sun, which is time-equivalent with two consecutive crossings of the Earth relative to an imaginary line between the Sun and a fixed star.

Either this 360° orbit represents 31,558,149.5 seconds of time relative to the fixed star AND relative to the Sun or it represents 31,556,925.97 seconds.

It CANNOT represent both measures of time simultaneously, WITHOUT a systematic motion of the Sun or the fixed star!
 

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