In the last post was part one of my series reminded us the next second is the future second now the present and now the past second traveling from the future to the past. The same is true with every minute and every hour. Tomorrow for example is in the future day we will travel into while we are in the present day that is going to be be in the past ( yesterday ) sequence. By default time machines are equip with a counter counting every second of a day it travels in. Anybody into digital electronics can easily construct a working digital time piece from electronic hobby shop components. Libraries have digital electronic construction books discussing how to construct digital timers where we learn hands on experience on how they work. It is basically a digital clock consisting of a read out of 6 digit digital Liquid Crystal Display ( LCD ) representing seconds, minutes, hours and a day. Note there is no 60 seconds, minutes or 24 hours, to digital clocks. They count each day 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds resetting back to zeros simultaneously a date changes at every 12 midnight repeating the days cycle. For example for argument sake lets say the 24th day the read out at 23:59:59 changes to the 25th resetting to zeros stimulatingly. 26th:00:00:00. The zeros represent no hours, no minutes, and no seconds. All the zeros purse in the time we say one thousand and one. The 6th 0 signifies the beginning of the 1st second. When it changes to 1 signifies the end. An equal pause of time signifies the beginning of the 2nd second. When it changes to 3 it signifies the end of the 2nd second, pausing an equal amount of time signifying the beginning of the 3rd second. When the 3rd second changes to 4 it is the end of the 3rd second equally pausing the same amount of time. Every pause signifies the start and ending of every second respectively. In other words digital time pieces are programmed 0 starts the 1st second completes it, starting the 2nd competing it, starting the 3 completing it and so on every second in the minute. Operating on the principle so too every minute in this case a pause of a 59 seconds each. Operating on the principle so too every hour in this case a pause of 59 minutes 59 seconds each. The timer will be tracking every day of the week. At 00:00:00 12 midnight Monday night a week finishes 12 midnight 23:59:59 Sunday night. The different days of the calendar months is problematic in getting traveling though time right. Machines have to keep track of the different days of each month specially where the dates of a week over lap into each month. For example 12 midnight Monday 25th June to 12 midnight Sunday 2nd July. Each month is critical for the machine to travel though each calendar month to get the year right. Heres where traveling though time becomes really tricky. A year is an orbit of the earth round the nearest stare in our universe our sun the timer has to accurately count every second. Those into mathematics will agree adding all the seconds of a year is a simple matter of adding up all the seconds of a day where 60 times 60 equals 3,600 seconds in an hour multiplied by 24 adds up to 86,400 seconds of a day multiplied by 365 days of a year. Scientific notation is an algorithm every year equals 60 squared 24, 365. Never the less the machine is compensated for the different days of each calendar month should count every second of a year. For example 12 midnight 31st December 2005 timer read out will display 9:364:23:59:59 ( 9 years 364 days 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds) resetting at12 midnight 1st January 00:00:000:00:00:00. Even more tricky the western calendar tells us there is an extra 86,400 seconds ( a day ) gained at the end of every 3rd February we call a leap year our timer needs to account for. It needs to stay on track every second the earth gains the extra day every 3rd earth orbit. Its not necessary a mystery because of how the western calendar is organized. Todays astronomers tell us the earths spin and orbit speeds have been changing slightly from its birth to this day. To us it is agonizingly slow but the change in spin and orbit speed is a couple of microseconds per century. A micro from the standard metric system for a thousandth of anything in this case of a second. If our time machine didnt account for leap years our machine would be hopelessly travel inaccurately though the years. The timer is deigned with an extra day involved every 3rd year cycle. Taking into account of the leap years the counter will continually repeat the second, minute, and ours of every day though each decade of a century taking into account of the leap years. Im sure anybody into challenging mathematics can calculate all the second of century taking into account of all the leap year days in it. Operating on the principle all the seconds of a millennia ( a thousand years ) can be calculated even in a million years or a billion years. Theoretically there is no reason why not billions even several 100 thousand trillion centuries left in the universe to explore in the future. Im sure anybody into challenging mathematics can project the number of seconds in that time wed begin to think when did time begin? If there can be a mathematical end can mathematics project it? It is possible a for hundreds of a digit number, let a lone thousands, millions, billions of trillions long. Cosmologists like all of us can only speculate based on the big bang theory that has supposed to have created our universe. Using a complete earth orbit as reference measurement equivalent to age of the universe the equivalent of under 15 billion earth orbits old taking into account earths changing velocity over that time. The big bang is a 14 digit long number to this point.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:40:11 +0000
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