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**ycMC0PLg** · 09-27-2011, 05:46 PM

What are you talking about?

Our day is 24 hours because that's how long it takes to make a full rotation.

If it's midnight here, it's noon hour in China (Loosely put). If the mantle slips and suddenly North america is on the other side of the world, we'd be facing the sun at high noon all of a sudden, and China would be suddenly sitting in the darkness of midnight.

We're saying the same thing, with different semantics. I'm talking about clock time. If my clock says midnight, and this shift occurs, it will be bright sunshine outside my window, but my clock will still say midnight. That's how I'll know something happened.

Also, when you said the "day is shortened", I guess you meant that one day. I thought you were claiming that a day would no longer be 24 hours long.

09-27-2011, 05:46 PM	#32
ycMC0PLg Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	What are you talking about? Our day is 24 hours because that's how long it takes to make a full rotation. If it's midnight here, it's noon hour in China (Loosely put). If the mantle slips and suddenly North america is on the other side of the world, we'd be facing the sun at high noon all of a sudden, and China would be suddenly sitting in the darkness of midnight. We're saying the same thing, with different semantics. I'm talking about clock time. If my clock says midnight, and this shift occurs, it will be bright sunshine outside my window, but my clock will still say midnight. That's how I'll know something happened. Also, when you said the "day is shortened", I guess you meant that one day. I thought you were claiming that a day would no longer be 24 hours long.
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