The Stardate
This has gone through a few corrections and the result is possibly correct.
Issuing a measurement
Looking for time measurements we got used to look for the durations of rotations. Looking into the cosmic the basic rotation of the sun around the center of the Milky-Way is considered to be 1 Galactic Year.
But that's odd!
Looking for Constants that remain true at least within our Galaxy we come to that which is the 'Galaxy Rotation Curve'. In other words: The Maximum/Average-Maximum Travel-Speed of a Star within our Galaxy. That means that up to a certain threshhold all stars within our Galaxy travel at approxmiately the same speed around the galactic center.
Saying that "the closer we get to the center, the faster the stars travel" is only half-way true, as diagrams show that for the most part stars travel at the same speed.
Our sun is told to travel at around 220 km/s - but how to make a universal time scale out of it?
The key to this is the so called 'radian'. The Radian is a unit to measure angles, whereby 1 Radian is the angle where the partial-circumference is equal to radius - and is, that's the beauty of math, equal to 1 within PI. 1 Full circle has a circumference of 2 PI, equals 360 degrees equals 6.xxxx radians.
To standardize a value we need a Universal time-unit - while using Hydrons we get:
1 Starspeed = 220 km/s
1 Starleap = 220*0.704024183761 km = 154.885320427 km
In reference to Lightspeed:
Lightspeed = 299792.458/154.885320427 Starleaps/s = 1362.69299091 Starleaps/Hyd
1 Lightmile = 1362.69299091 Starleaps
(This is however yet more approximate than accurate since an accurate Starspeed is hardly determinable. Thus we would see this through to an end and calculate an 'eventual' starspeed in order to round the end-value to a likable number)
The next step is to be a little bit creative. Because we want our Stardate to be practical, we first take the rotation of a hypothetical star around the center - thus compliant to our hypothetical cycle correspondent to a Star-Year. In this manner I select 4800 to be the amount of segments this Star-Year is to be separated into, alias 2PI in something else.
Thereby I count in Starleaps because finally the speed at which this hypothetical star travels around the center should stand in approximation thereto. The Light-mile is only used to factor this value to produce a harmonic-cognitive number.
Using a radius - so - of 4800 Lightmiles - we get a circumference of 41097852.38 Starleaps, while one Starleap is the amount of space a Star Travels within 1 Hydron; Thus at a radius of 4800 Lightmiles we have a Star-Year of 41097852.38 Hydrons - or so - 28933881.97 seconds which takes us to the result of something like 0.917487 years.
Returning to say '1 Star-year = 1 Earth-year' is however the wrong end of the page here. Much more accurate to say is that 1 Star-hour conforms to 8562.05257868 Hydrons, or so 8.56205 kilo-Hydrons (1.674 hours).
In this manner we might however just change the idea, say that one Star-hour were 10 KHyd and done (1 Staryear = 48 MHyd = 391.1245 days). The relevance of the Starleap therein is the relation of space to time. Using Lightmiles instead of Starleaps we have more space covered per Hydron and hence were to arrive at a smaller number -> a radius of 4800 Lightmiles yields a circumference of 2PI*4800 Lightmiles. Using Starleaps we multiply that by another 155~.
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Point of Origin
Here it gets hairy. There we have two big options. The one is to take the hypothetical origin of the Universe, the other is to take the hypothetical time of the creation of Eden. The latter allowed us to say that we're at close to/about 5000-6000 Staryears. To however not be careless, we still have to somehow account for the larger number, in which case we have option a where our Stardate were some insanely large number; And option b a possibility to combine the two.
The Logic were simply that if we took Eden as reference point, we already do have the issue that certain things on this planet are measured to be older than; So that we - as want to take Eden as approximate origin - automatically come to implement a System to properly solve problems with negative numbers; And furthermore large numbers in general.
The simplest format I can come up with is an alphanumerical sequence that indicates a reference value. Thus we say we're at about Stardate 0-5500.0000, while if we so wanted to specify the age of something in relation to the origin of the universe we take X-years.doesntmatter, whereby X simply indicates the point of origin take. Thus to be accurate we can say that in reference to eden we use E, while 0 simply indicates our locale approximation that we then so are to build on within real terms.
Beta Tuning
This dating method allows us to indicate time within a resolution of closely 4 hours; Thus any further fine-tuning may not be entirely necessary. But that is just my oppinion; And at some point this isn't (entirely) up to me anymore!
Suggestively:
The periodic value would update every 33.7~ seconds {
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Naturally there are upsides and downslides to this, hence, the 'local/common' time is still there. In review the earth-year may still be missing, and to not get the periodic value too large, the two missing digits can be placed somewhere else, like at the top right or next to the era; Where the significance is basically rather low.
The Day count may still be confusing, where we might say XXXX=Month while XXXY is DayHour, but for mathematical purposes Month and Hours were equal then and yet. Therefore however the periodic value is preferred, as we can say that two digits post period are within the range of a week, while three digits post period are within the range of a day.
Immediate Comprehension fails because time doesn't work that way. The general perception is counted in the planets day/night cycle, the rest is a matter of understanding the system wherein this perception is counted and a matter of looking at the watch.
We kindof only do know how long one year is in about, and that because we have experienced the duration of such - while within the perceptual relativity of time thats no accurate science either.
In this way, 40 Eras make up 14400000 staryears (14.4 Million), which isn't enough! Thus eventually this can be adjusted by saying that in the negative we say mERA, so, m00-0000 is at minus 360000 years. To simplify variations the square symbol is taken to account for whatever that scale is about. I used square because the point of Origin is set into Era 40, 40 as the "odd" yet time-related 'holy number' that frequently occurs in the Bible, while therefore seeking to set 40-0 to the time wherein the Story begins. Therein now however certain "anomalies" and missing-links make it nearly impossible to account for an accurate determination. For once the theory suggests that between the appearance of God at Babel and Abram finding himself in Babylon an unknown period of time has passed by [Abramite Stasis], and then it is nearly impossible to filter out an accurate time for how to fit that into our relations. While we can say though that Israel conquered Canaan at about 1200 BC, we cannot exactly determine how long Israel has been in Egypt. Approximately though Abraham existed at around 1800 BC. Resorting to equally smooth Approximations, Eden was created at about 4200 BC, thus adding - Phantom Time regarded - our current date to that we live in the year 5920 (2014 AD).
That in general takes us into the staryear 5528, more accurately - as of now - 5528.3762.
Because the Hydron counter updates the 'Radial' number every 10000 hydrons, but the periodic number every 480 hydrons, one might get into difficulties regarding the formulas. Thereby I use the rounded Hydron counter to produce a round 6 digit number that is divided by 100000 and added to the year-number*10. In the same one could simply take a raw starhour count and divide it by 480, but this way the number will stay at five digits post period.
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