We tell time in various units. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, years. Of those, days and years are set by the solar system. A day is defined as one earth’s rotation on its axis, not by a day and night cycle of the earth around the sun as some of the old earth advocates would like us to believe.
Tag: Cosmology
Watery Exoplanet?
Astronomers are always scanning the skies for new discoveries, or new information about known heavenly bodies. One recent discovery made … More
The Great Galactic Zoo?
Sometimes I wonder whether astronomers, physicists, and astrobiologists are serious. Astrobiology is a bit of a joke to begin with, … More
Multiverse and Big Bang
The Multiverse is an idea that has been gaining some traction in recent years, among both scientists and non-scientists, as … More