Timeline for Does the earth spiral around the sun's movement/motion path?
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| May 9, 2023 at 5:38 | comment | added | bandybabboon | This is a cool answer because it shows that that the Earth is going in a spyrogram around the sun due to its tandem with the moon, only the barycentre in between the moon and the earth is spiralling around the sun. | |
| Feb 10, 2021 at 7:58 | comment | added | B--rian | @A.C.M.Meijer Since you are not able to post comments yet, I will quote you here for the probably case that your answer/ comments gets removed: VSauce states that the sun is heading for the Great Attractor, in your answers to the questions of knowledge seeker you state that he sun is heading for the black hole in our galaxy. I wonder what is the case and why. See youtu.be/rztU-jnmcdg for a stunning animation of magnetic directions in the observable universe. | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 0:36 | comment | added | uhoh | @knowledgeseeker I think it looks good now, just sit tight and wait. There are already three votes to reopen, it needs two more. i.sstatic.net/r1ZlR.png Thanks for your patience and responsiveness! Stack Exchange is a little different than other internet sites but once you get used to it it can be really fun and rewarding. There are almost 200 SE sites to choose from! | |
| Jan 6, 2021 at 0:30 | comment | added | knowledgeseeker | @uhoh Thank you so much for all the help above and here. I appreciate it. I have edited my question title and text to be able as clear as possible. I have also added what you proposed in summary. Is there anything else I need to do to have my question reopened? | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 22:03 | comment | added | Christopher James Huff | @knowledgeseeker motion is relative: from the point of view of one object moving with respect to the solar system, the sun and Earth can appear to be moving on helical paths. From another, they could be moving within a plane, each moving ahead of the other. From a rotating frame, they would appear to be spiraling around the observer. None of these are very useful for understanding the physics of the motion, for that you generally want to use a frame of reference that moves along with the system, where they move elliptical orbits around each other. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 15:51 | comment | added | uhoh | @knowledgeseeker Your question was quickly closed because somebody proposed you were asking something else, that you clearly weren't asking and decided not to give you enough time to reply. At this point if you would like others to have a chance to answer, it's best if you make an edit to your question and add "My question was regarding the spiraling movement of earth around the sun's path in the video." as you wrote in the comment. That will trigger the reopen process and five more votes will set things back to normal. Normally things are pretty smooth here, but once in a while this happens. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 14:31 | comment | added | knowledgeseeker | Thanks for the information. Is my analogy above incorrect? I want to use that as analogy for something. Though, I do not want my analogy to be faulty. I am talking from earth-sun point of view, not the entire solar system. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 14:21 | comment | added | uhoh | @knowledgeseeker that's different than the question that you've posted but it's close enough that I can coment. The Sun and Earth can be though of as moving in spirals; they move in circles around their common center of gravity, and if you count the solar system's motion in the galaxy each of their paths are spirals. But hopefully they will continue to spiral for a long time and neither will drop out! | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 14:16 | comment | added | knowledgeseeker | Am I right? I am working on a poetry piece. If I mention that the earth and the sun are locked in a never ending race with each taking the lead (earth moving in front of the sun path / winning) and earth actually dropping out of the race (spiraling/moving out the race and falling behind), that they would never meet, would I be correct? | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 14:16 | comment | added | knowledgeseeker | Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my questions. I appreciate it. I have little knowledge of astronomy/physics. I saw the video by Vsauce. I was amazed. I knew that the sun moves following a path. Though, I did not know that the earth spiraled around the sun's path. I thought the planets were vertical to the sun even when the solar system moved. Can I deduce that the movement of the solar system is what causes the spiraling effect? In my mind, I am thinking that the movement of the solar system causes the 3d effect which is equal to the spiraling. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 10:03 | history | answered | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
