A calculation request
Sep. 13th, 2008 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgBB was born on December 26 1958, and is thus due--in the normal course of things--to turn 50 years old on December 26 2008. This might not work out.
As a contingency measure I would like to offer a range of alternative dates for the celebration of his 50th year. We only need to slice a few weeks or months off half a century of calendar.
I don't want to say "So, it's September 27 (for example), but we'll have your birthday early in case you won't make it to December." I want to say "So, it's September 27 but it's actually your 50th birthday today if you include the time distortion effects of orbital wobble from all the satellites put in orbit since 1962". Or by making every 4th minute 1 second shorter for 50 years, your 50th year is on Octeber 2.
I am way to tired for speculative science, so this is your challenge:
Manipulate the definition of "year" so that 50 of them fit between 26 Dec 1958 and any time in the next month or two. The more birthday options the merrier.
Perhaps shave a few seconds off each day. Do something creative to leap years. Modify the orbit of the planet. Correct timekeeping rounding issues left over from the 18th century. Alter the physics of uranium decay. Change the gravity inside a pendulum clock. I want numbers, people. Show your work.
Please.
As a contingency measure I would like to offer a range of alternative dates for the celebration of his 50th year. We only need to slice a few weeks or months off half a century of calendar.
I don't want to say "So, it's September 27 (for example), but we'll have your birthday early in case you won't make it to December." I want to say "So, it's September 27 but it's actually your 50th birthday today if you include the time distortion effects of orbital wobble from all the satellites put in orbit since 1962". Or by making every 4th minute 1 second shorter for 50 years, your 50th year is on Octeber 2.
I am way to tired for speculative science, so this is your challenge:
Manipulate the definition of "year" so that 50 of them fit between 26 Dec 1958 and any time in the next month or two. The more birthday options the merrier.
Perhaps shave a few seconds off each day. Do something creative to leap years. Modify the orbit of the planet. Correct timekeeping rounding issues left over from the 18th century. Alter the physics of uranium decay. Change the gravity inside a pendulum clock. I want numbers, people. Show your work.
Please.
