MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours ago23 November 1987sh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down11
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minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·15 hours agoThat’s not really the “wobble in Earth’s tilt”, that’s just the tilt itself. You have a much better understanding than Calvin’s dad though.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 hours agowobble or not is a matter of reference frame. In an Inertial frame you are of course right, but in relation to the suns surface I’d argue the earth could be said to wobble.
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·15 hours agoYup you’re right, as you said, i was close but not quite right https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/seasons.en.jpg
minus-squareidegenszavak@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 hours agoAnd actually on the Northern hemisphere we are farther from the sun during summer than winter.
That’s not really the “wobble in Earth’s tilt”, that’s just the tilt itself. You have a much better understanding than Calvin’s dad though.
wobble or not is a matter of reference frame. In an Inertial frame you are of course right, but in relation to the suns surface I’d argue the earth could be said to wobble.
Yup you’re right, as you said, i was close but not quite right
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/seasons.en.jpg
And actually on the Northern hemisphere we are farther from the sun during summer than winter.