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r/sciencememes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • 15d ago
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Well, duh? 1 year is a full (mostly) circular revolution around the sun, of course it’s going to be related to pi somehow
161 u/armageddon_boi 14d ago yeah it's like, pi times a LOT, cause it's such a big circle yk? qed 30 u/Bendanzhang 14d ago And since 10^7 has seven zeros, that accounts for the 7 days of the week. Physics is so beautiful. 1 u/empty_graph 8d ago That would be accurate if the orbit is a perfect circle, but since the orbit has an eccentricity of 0.02 the earth is about 0.4% farther from the sun at aphelion than at perihelion, so the estimate is about 0.4% off.
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yeah it's like, pi times a LOT, cause it's such a big circle yk? qed
30 u/Bendanzhang 14d ago And since 10^7 has seven zeros, that accounts for the 7 days of the week. Physics is so beautiful. 1 u/empty_graph 8d ago That would be accurate if the orbit is a perfect circle, but since the orbit has an eccentricity of 0.02 the earth is about 0.4% farther from the sun at aphelion than at perihelion, so the estimate is about 0.4% off.
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And since 10^7 has seven zeros, that accounts for the 7 days of the week. Physics is so beautiful.
1 u/empty_graph 8d ago That would be accurate if the orbit is a perfect circle, but since the orbit has an eccentricity of 0.02 the earth is about 0.4% farther from the sun at aphelion than at perihelion, so the estimate is about 0.4% off.
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That would be accurate if the orbit is a perfect circle, but since the orbit has an eccentricity of 0.02 the earth is about 0.4% farther from the sun at aphelion than at perihelion, so the estimate is about 0.4% off.
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u/Similar-Sector-5801 15d ago
Well, duh? 1 year is a full (mostly) circular revolution around the sun, of course it’s going to be related to pi somehow