AstroRockHunter wrote;"So, your hypothesis that the 24 hour day is absolute time is based upon a geocentric view of the universe. Since we know that the Earth is not the center of the universe, your hypothesis cannot be correct."

Funny,funny,funny!.

I guess you just have not enough sense to understand how the 24 hour clock refers to the natural unequal day via the Equation of Time.

Hey, if you believe that the combined rotations of the Earth,the axial and annual orbital cannot be seperated (this is what the EoT does) ,good for you,in fact you will be following in the footsteps of your mentor Albert .

It is actually enjoyable to see so many link the Earth's rotation to circumpolar motion or 23 hrs 56 min,sort of like watching creationists go about things,too simpleminded to be of any use yet amazing to see the lenghts to distract that accurate clocks were developed via the EoT to reflect axial rotation through 360 degrees in 24 hours exactly.This is how clocks become rulers of distance so forget the dummy 4th dimension.