The Many Motions of Planet Earth.

September 27, 2007 by donzzz

All Motion is Relative - to something else. To describe the motion of any body at least two points of reference must be taken into account. (a body's motion must be compared to something else, the observer, the background, etc.). For example; an automobile's motion compared to the surface over which it is traveling, this goes for the Earth too. The Earth's motion compared to the sun or moon or stars, etc. You cannot describe the motion of the Earth without comparing it to something else. Its motion will be different in each case, with the reference to what it is being compared to.
We live on our tiny planet, that has many motions in the vast cosmos. It is part of a star system that revolves around a spiral galaxy. The galaxy itself is accelerating (falling?) toward the outer regions (border?) of the universe.

The following is a list of the many motions of planet Earth. You will note that all the motions on this list are motions relative to other references, bodies, backgrounds, etc. The one notable exception to this is the Earth does not move relative to space itself. The Earth's motion relative to universal space is zero. The Earth and all other bodies' motion, relative to space, is zero. Universal space is all one, it has no references, no direction, therefore no motion can be detected. The Earth's motion relative space alone, excluding all matter and energy is zero (0). The Earth is stationary - relative to universal space!

Space alone, devoid of all matter and energy, is not empty however, it has all the "laws of nature" that govern the matter and energy within the universe. These "Laws" are the framework that creates space and give the universe its personality.

The Earth rotates 'relative' to the sun. The planet rotates on its axis taking approximately 24 hours to complete one day/night cycle. This rotation is gradually slowing - it has been slowing ever since its birth, when it exploded out of the sun with the other planets and debris, around four and a half billion years ago. In the past the Earth's rotation was much more rapid. This caused the Earth's shape to be more elliptical and perhaps , when it was very young even have a Saturn type ring around it.

The planet is slowly becoming rounder. As the planet’s rotation gradually slows, relative to the sun - the planet slowly becomes a more perfect sphere (rounder). This causes the circumference of the equator to also gradually shrink. This has profound effects on the Earth’s crust, oceans and atmosphere as the earth slowly changes its shape. "The effects of the Earth's slowing rotation.

The Earth's revolution, relative to the sun - the Earth takes the planet 365.25 days to complete one revolution around the sun. In this scenario - at aphelion - the sun is traveling its slowest rather then visa versa.

Relative to the background of stars, the axis of the planet wobbles (precesses) - it takes 26,000 years to complete one cycle. This can be observed over long periods of time using the stars as a background.

*** Relative to space itself - taking no other body into account - the planet is completely motionless.
This was indicated by the Michelson - Morley experiment and all other subsequent experiments. No motion has ever been detected between Earth and space. Fitzgerald offered an adhoc explanation that the Earth contracted just enough to compensate for the motion of the Earth through space. Einstein came up with a slightly different explanation but the simple truth is that - the Earth is not moving - relative to space - its speed is zero.
(Ref: The MIND of Mankind, chapter 16 - The Michelson Morley experiment).

Taking the sun’s galactic motion into account - the planet is oscillating back and forth across the sun’s galactic path - traveling from behind the sun to the front of the sun. It takes one Earth year to complete an oscillation. In this scenario - at aphelion - the Earth is traveling at its fastest.

All the planets in the solar sytem travel at approximately the same speed as they oscillate back and forth across the sun’s galactic path. Since each planet is at a different distance from the sun - each has its own individual year but they are all traveling at approximately the same galactic speed.

Relative to the Milky Way, as an integral part of the solar system, the planets oscillate up and down - relative to the neighboring stars as it travels around the Milky Way.

As an integral part of the galaxy the Earth is accelerating (falling) outward toward the outlying region of the universe (or its border if the universe is finite). The "Falling" Galaxies

The magnetic poles of the planet’s magnetic field reverses every so often. Is this an indication that the interior of the planet or its magnetic core is also slowly rotating in a north-south direction??

It was the ancient Greek philosophers in particular the Pythagoreans who came up with the theory that the heavenly bodies floated free in space and that their motion was circular. From that idea it was accepted that the Earth is a free floating rotating sphere. Aristarchus suggested the heliocentric (sun centered) theory but that was rejected for the Earth centered theory which was totally wrong but was accepted by the philosopher scientists for the next 1800 years until Copernicus revived the sun centered idea based on Aristarchus's theory.

Don Hamilton, author of - "The Mind of Mankind"

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Reference: Chapter 15 - Inertia, A Requirement of Space.