RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 16, 2016 at 6:25 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2016 at 6:29 am by Alex K.)
Short answer: While we see 365.x days on earth during one revolution of earth around the sun, the earth actually did one more rotation in that time, 366.x, but the additional full rotation wasn't visible as another sunset and sunrise on earth because we went round the sun in the same direction once, and hence it isn't counted as an additional day.
In Verne's "Around the World in 80 days", the protagonists think they lost their bet because they counted 80 sunsets and sunrises during their travels and thought that therefore, 81 days had passed. They forgot that, by going around the earth once in the direction of its rotation, they saw one more sunset and sunrise than observers in London, and thus had in reality only spent 80 days on their travels and the bet was won. In the present question, the opposite happens.
In Verne's "Around the World in 80 days", the protagonists think they lost their bet because they counted 80 sunsets and sunrises during their travels and thought that therefore, 81 days had passed. They forgot that, by going around the earth once in the direction of its rotation, they saw one more sunset and sunrise than observers in London, and thus had in reality only spent 80 days on their travels and the bet was won. In the present question, the opposite happens.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition