Comments on: Widdershins https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/04/widdershins/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/04/widdershins/#comment-3599 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:44:27 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5714#comment-3599 Kepler’s laws only apply to freely moving bodies, not parts of a body held together as a whole.

]]> By: Back Ward https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/04/widdershins/#comment-3597 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:41:54 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5714#comment-3597 Why,then, are planets rotating in opposite direction as they orbit? Shouldn’t mass on a planet’s day side move faster around the Sun than the night side, because it is closer to the Sun, according to Kepler’s laws?

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/04/widdershins/#comment-3596 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 22:26:40 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5714#comment-3596 If you are north of the Tropic of Cancer, then it’s always south of you. If you are north of the equator, but south of the Tropic of Cancer, then there is a period of time during Summer where the Sun passes to the north.

]]> By: VK https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/04/widdershins/#comment-3594 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:11:21 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5714#comment-3594 “If you are in the northern hemisphere, the Sun will make this east-west journey to the south of you. ”

That only happens for half of the year, no?

]]> By: geckzilla https://briankoberlein.com/2016/02/04/widdershins/#comment-3588 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:37:52 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5714#comment-3588 Heh, another example of the northern dominion of Earth. We’re lucky our fellow humans in the southern hemisphere are so laid back or they might take great offense at our notion of north and south, right side up and upside down, clockwise and counter clockwise, and who knows what else…

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