Your age since the big bang? i think

giftgrub

Ive been searching and searching for this...

Basically there's some kind of scientific number for your date of birth.

i think it has to do with the age of the universe, or maybe the sun.

its doing my head in, any help?

Sir Arthur Daley

giftgrub wrote: »

or maybe the sun.

its doing my head in, any help?

The news paper is it?

Mint Aero

It's simple really. Earth takes 365 days roughly to revolve around the sun which is equal to one year. So take current year and minus year you where born to get your age.

Sir Arthur Daley

Mint Aero wrote: »

It's simple really. Earth takes 365 days roughly to revolve around the sun which is equal to one year. So take current year and minus year you where born to get your age.

What happens on a leap year?

RobbingBandit

WikiHow wrote: »

What happens on a leap year?

A woman can propose to a man, and freaks of time and space are born on February 29.

Sir Arthur Daley

RobbingBandit wrote: »

A woman can propose to a man, and freaks of time and space are born on February 29.

And does that qualify you for Rock and Roll money?

RobbingBandit

No, you just can't buy beer until you are 72 years old if you are born on February 29.

giftgrub

I should have known better...schoolboy error

Turtwig

Insignificant.

Duggy747

You're 6,014 years old :pac:

errlloyd

giftgrub wrote: »

I should have known better...schoolboy error

It'd be a lot of digits of which only the last few would be relevant.

RobbingBandit

Were you thinking of the cosmic calender, the time on a 24 hour scale that human beings first appeared on earth.

http://visav.phys.uvic.ca/~babul/AstroCourses/P303/BB-slide.htm

RobbingBandit

Duggy747 wrote: »

You're 6,014 years old :pac:

:mad: get out of here you catholic.

Iwasfrozen

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Were you thinking of the cosmic calender, the time on a 24 hour scale that human beings first appeared on earth.

http://visav.phys.uvic.ca/~babul/AstroCourses/P303/BB-slide.htm

Link broken

RobbingBandit

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Link broken

Is working for me though.:cool:

Iwasfrozen

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Is working for me though.:cool:

Ah so it is. Must have been a temporary problem.

Lyaiera

Stardate -309236.44

Big Nasty

Lyaiera wrote: »

Stardate -309236.44

Bazinga!

danniemcq

Mint Aero wrote: »

It's simple really. Earth takes 365 days roughly to revolve around the sun which is equal to one year. So take current year and minus year you where born to get your age.

ah but to someone else who has no idea of the length of time involved in this or what a "day" is you would have to pick somehing else.

plus the earth rotating changes over time, its 365.25 days (roughly) at the moment but it was once much shorter and over time it is getting slower as gravity messes with everything!

If you wanted to be precise and communicate time either your age or something else you need to figure out something you both can agree on and also something thats really accurate.

For that you would need to use something like the pulse in a binary star

Precise clocks[edit]For some millisecond pulsars, the regularity of pulsation is more precise than an atomic clock.[32] This stability allows millisecond pulsars to be used in establishing ephemeris time[33] or building pulsar clocks.[34]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar#Precise_clocks

So all you need to do is figure out what pulsar you could use that you both would know i guess and measure the pulses based on your timing and then tell them what it is in pulses.

So you could say

with the pulses coming from X at the speed of Y i was born Z pulses ago.

danniemcq

Lyaiera wrote: »

Stardate -309236.44

depends on the series and the writers