Why Don’t We Feel the Earth Move?

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Aristarchus of SamosHistorical profile​·​#5816​·​1927​·​AI-assisted
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The planets go around the Sun, as Kepler said, but the Sun isn’t at rest either. Carrying them along, it circles the far-off center of the Milky Way, as the stars around us do, those nearer the center faster.

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