This misrepresents the argument.
The argument is whether or not a “sidereal day” is just some bullshit they made up to explain away the discrepancy between time, the earths rotation, and it’s relative position to the sun. Hint: it is.
To believe the earth is a spinning ball is to believe that 4 minutes are missing from each day that you just “don’t notice.”
Feel free to look into it.
No, dummy. The earth takes 23:56:04 to rotate once, physically, on its axis. But because the earth is moving forward around the sun, the sun doesn’t appear in the same place in the sky at noon until 24:00:00 have passed. It’s not that you “don’t notice,” it’s that they measure two completely different things
What? A day is noon to noon. The sidereal day is the one you accept if you think the earth is orbiting the sun. Side note: When Magellan finally returned from the first cruise around the world, his logbook was one day off of the true date because they didn't invent the international date line yet. The dumbasses said he must have been negligent with his recordkeeping.
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