if the maximum lifespan on earth is “114 years” then it would be 1,140 andromeda years.
In what is a “day” for them, four of our “days” have passed.
In what is a “year” for them, four of our “years” have passed.
And then a galactic year is something on the order of 15,200 of our years or 3,800 of their years.
That’s why time dilation and time compression are a factor, both of those can be induced experimentally on earth , this can be reproduced. Just go into a casino with no windows or clocks. Just drive all the way from Canada to South America, haha just kidding they will *never* allow that. And oh, I suppose, the “right” illegal drugs, but I don’t do that. Anymore. 😛
A perpetual date Rolex with a 3135 caliber uses 31 jewels (instead of just quartz) and a glucydur balance.
In terms of chronometers, a glucydur balance is functionally obsolete as of 2015. Rolex introduced the paramagnetic blue parachrom hairspring in 2000 and that’s the real crux of the y2k problem. It’s that old timekeeping methods started disintegrating and became unreliable at the most fundamental level- not just in software.
A perpetual date Rolex with a 3235 caliber uses 31 jewels and a paramagnetic oscillator. Both of them oscillate at 28,800 vph, 4Hz, but the 3235 introduces the concept of “central hours” “central minutes” “central sweeping seconds” and it advances the date formally at 03:00.
Sweeping seconds , hours, minutes, isn’t really important for your wristwatch but it iiiiiiis for navigation instruments.
Did you know that in terms of tech companies, Rolex is as big as CERN?
If “time” is this constant, fixed, universal, unshatterable, unchanging eternal thing then, well never fucking mind … why is the length of a “second” variable these days, why would precision watchmaking change in 2000, why would watches made with the old techniques stop being accurate in 2015… the y2k problem could more accurately be called a y2k16 problem.
Nobody cares if we know things like this. School was more concerned with trying, unsuccessfully, to blue room me and instill obedience rather than intelligence in me.
Neither timekeeping method wins in a theoretical merger because they’re both arbitrary and neither of them are real.
The “universal now” is forever and and always “now” in the (((“vacuum of space”))). It’s relativity to my now and their now isn’t based on “now” though, it is based on the space time that occurs from “now” until the next oscillation of a quartz or a gem or a whole bunch of gems or an atom or a whatever and that’s what I mean by, it’s arbitrary, it’s not even real, it doesn’t matter, and it’s not the same thing here as it is there.
I can prove that under the right operating conditions , “now” isn’t even the same thing here as it is here..
now already came and went and decayed a loooong time ago.
If Andromeda is 2.537 million “light years away” that could be like, 202 years away based on galactic years or 667 years away based on andromeda years- easily in their lifespan – or 166 of our years away.
These are all approximately the same thing, I would imagine Trump is being a smartass when he says things like “oh I don’t know, I could live to be 200.”
That’s like me saying I’m 168 or even > 15,200 since we just had a full 15,200 galactic year elapse from our 1981, their 1982 to our 2024, their 2020/2050; our 2025, their 2021/2046.
The last time that occurred was about 2,100 years ago (who’s counting, who cares…) in 0CE , “common era.” (So that’s where I get 2,150 from.)
You almost have to arbitrarily give them future years that move backwards because it would be even weirder to say that they’re in our past and that it’s now 2021 running towards 2020. Instead you say, it’s 2150 running backwards towards 2146.
They’re both arbitrary and nonsensical.
All timekeeping is.