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xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Why would objects far out need to orbit earth every 24h?

Wouldn’t that break relativity tho if you treat the earth as a fixed point?

To be honest, physics was never my strong point. If I remember correctly you could chose any point as your observational (?) point but maybe someone with some real physics cred can chime in.