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Despite current human status quo scientific understanding, and its one-off way of knowing, light years is supposed to be an indication of distance, but I suspect a light year is more reflective of time, and only secondarily an indicator of speed and thirdly an indicator of distance.
A light year is said to be the distance light travels in the timespan of one Earth year. This distance is supposedly 6 trillions miles. This number varies according to which source you check.On the other hand, distance traveled on Earth, such as a mile, is not measured by the time it takes for any of us or anything to travel one mile. A mile is a mile no matter how long it takes. Distance on Earth is consistently measured.
An Earth year of approximately 365 days is based on how much time it takes for Earth to travel around the sun one revolution. We do not express an Earth year in terms of distance by saying an Earth year is 584 million miles; yet, we say a light year is 6 trillion miles.
An Earth year is quoted in terms of time while a light year is quoted in terms of distance. This reminds me of intentional misrepresentation when the same disease is classified in some instances by etiology, and in other instances by morphology.
One expression of Speed is stated in terms of time as miles per hour. Speed, as a function of time and distance, allows distance to also be known and or calculated for additional time periods and additional distances.
Thus, to say light travels 6 trillion miles per Earth Year, is a distance per time statement, thus an expression of speed (velocity)*. A light year is miles per year, which tells us the speed (how fast light is moving). *Yes speed and velocity are the same despite claims that they are not. Speed being basically distance divided by time, while velocity is change in distance divided by change in time. Many sources throw in direction, magnitude, scalar, angular and other reasons to claim the two are not the4 same.
A light year of 6 trillion miles per year converted to miles per hour is, in human limited perception, a mind-blowing high number.
Thus then, by multiplying the speed of light per hour by the number of hours in one year, gives us a light year.
If something traveled one thousand miles in one day, it is traveling 1,000 / 24 hours = 42 miles per hour. Thus, traveling at 42 miles per hour allows you to travel 42 x (24 hours x 365 days) = 367,920 miles in one year
Light year converted to miles per hour: 6 trillion / (24 x 365) = 684,936,507 miles per hour or 685 million miles per hour is the speed of light in one hour.[This number comes out the same as what is said to be a light year because we used that number as a basis in order to show baseline calculation formulas.]
Convert light hours to light year: 685 million x (24 x 365) = 6 trillion 600 million miles per year.
Using current scientific assertions, there is another way to know how far light travels in one year.
1. According to Space.com again, Earth is 1 AU from the Sun. An AU is 93 million miles and stands for Astronomical Unit.
2. It is said that it takes 8.3 minutes for light from the sun to reach earth.
Thus light is traveling the speed of distance per unit of time of 93,000,000 miles per 8.3 minutes or (93,000,000 / 8.3) x 60 minutes = 672,289,156 miles per hour.
Convert this to miles per year: 672,289,156 x 8,760 hours = 5,889,253,006,560 miles per year that light travels. This is a light year, an expression of speed, broken down into time (year) and distance (miles).
Thus we can now revise our earlier conclusion and say that a light year is primarily a measurement of speed that has been converted into distance per year. Time per mile can be extracted.Likewise we can say an Earth year of 365 days is also primarily a measurement of speed, except it has been converted into time per distance.
Thus, those Africans who gave us the time of an Earth year of 365 days, knew the distance traveled when Earth circumnavigates the Sun. Thus also, they also knew the speed.
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The difference between the two methods above is 6,000,600,000,000 - 5,889,253,006,560 = 111,346,993,440 miles.
Using the two methods above and the exact number of miles in a light year (calculation not shown), we can say a light year is currently overstated by at least 10 billion to 111 billion miles.
Please keep in mind, that for purposes of this discussion, we have made presupposition assumptions that the number of miles in 1 AU is correct, and also, that the time it takes for sunlight to reach earth is also correct.
An Earth revolution is said to be 584 million miles traveled in 365 days.Since a light year is also based on 365 days, a light year, expressed as time, is actually 52.12 minutes, the time it take light to travel the same distance as an Earth revolution. (584,000,000 / 93,000,000) x (8.3 minutes)
An Earth year of 365 days is 8,760 hours to travel 584 millions miles.
A Light year is 52 minutes to travel 584 million miles. This is a more accurate expression of what a Light Year is because it compares the same units and basis and uses the same terminology.
The word “revolution” is more of a neutral term appropriate to indicate time, distance and speed; whereas a year is primarily a time expression and miles is primarily a distance expression.
Thus, as our awareness elevates with the rising Ages, we are awakened to the factoid that to state Earth years in terms of time and to state light years in terms of distance in miles is to actually be stating revolutions, because a revolution (a cycle) encompasses time, distance, speed.
Light energies have been continuously traveling from the center of the galaxy and from the center of the universe. This is part of amazing grace that can change things in an instant.
