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signs of The Architect
by arthurcolle 8y ago
signs of The Architect
- daveFNbuck 8y agoI assume you're referring to a god here. I'm curious as to why you think this has anything to do with a god. Did it manipulate us to choose highly divisible numbers for timekeeping? Or is it responsible for 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 being equal to the fifth hyperfactorial? Is it evidence of The Architect every time two seemingly unrelated numbers are equal, or is there something about these two in particular that points to The Architect?
- arthurcolle 8y agoIt was a Matrix joke. Lighten up
- dlhavema 8y agowe're only 15 years past the release date of the 2nd movie... unless you go with XKCD's theory/view about the matrix - https://xkcd.com/566/ https://xkcd.com/566/
- gvx 8y agoNext year, that xkcd strip will have been published closer to the original release of The Matrix than to the current day. I can't believe I've been keeping up with xkcd for so long.
- andai 8y agoNo
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoThe Architect was off in terms of the ACTUAL time it takes for the earth to rotate - 86,164,100 milliseconds. What a "stellar" mistake for numerical perfection. Did The Architect screw up the math?
- arthurcolle 8y agoIf I ever meet the referenced fictional character from the Matrix trilogy I'll be sure to ask.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoThere was never a Matrix trilogy, there was one very good movie and that was it.
- vignesh_m 8y agoOur "original" definition of seconds was in term of our earth's rotation so it is exactly OPs number. We just changed our definition to a more constant second that slightly varies from our old definition.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoBut "milli" implies the metric system's version of a second, which is defined as per the decay of a caesium-133 atom. I doubt very much The Architect wanted us to mix our units of measure, unless The Architect was referring to that window of time where "milli" existed, but we hadn't yet changed the second to a uniform length of time (as opposed to one that would be affected by the variable rotation of the earth). If so, we are already past His golden age.
- coldtea 8y agoErr, we created the "seconds in a day" metric, by picking the time span of seconds. The earth's rotation takes a constant K time. Whether the time is 86400000 seconds or 50 seconds or 642552 seconds, is based on whatever arbitrary value we pick to mean "a second".