Space elevators could totally work – if land days were very short

Suppose you could expected the rotation of the earth so that one day was just half of the middle of time? What would you happen? Well, for beggars would have to make new watches that have only hours 1 to 6 per am and pm. If you had tickets to a 8-hour concert, you would be out of luck: 8 hours no longer exists.

But maybe a more German question is, why physicists ask nutty questions like this? Never happened – just follow, right? Well, here’s the matter. Thinking about the contrafactory scenarios gives us an insight as well as things work here actually. Plus, it’s funny! You need that I say more? Ok, could also help build a work space lift.

Oh, you don’t know what a space space? It’s a staple skip-fi, an armage of the land until a space orbiting station in geosynchronous orbit. A cable scale car would go on top and down, as a regular elevator. Basically is a way of getting out of space as easily and routinely while riding a lift to your office in the morning – no required codiples.

We start with some basic questions and build up to some more complicated physicals.

What is one day?

You can’t get more bases of that. But the answer is not simple. If he said a day is 24 hours, you are right and wrong. If you’re out, the time to whom the sun is in their highest point in the sky is called the lomal. If you stop here until the next local meal, the amount of time is defined as 24 hours. So an hour is 1/24 of the time between two local means.

But you wait! Is not the same as a complete revolution of the earth. If you measured the time of a complete revolution, you’ll find it that is not exactly 24 hours. The reason is that the land makes two things at a time: If you spell on his assets, which makes the sun to look at the sky. But it’s also orbiting the sun in the course, meaning complete rotation will not result in the sun in the same position in the same.

There are actually two types of different days. The one’s Solar day That’s the one you think, and is the one that is described above. The other type is called a Side day. I am Here is a totally non-scale diagram that will help you understand the difference: