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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille TaserlinkfedilinkEnglish47•1 day agoIf the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer. I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together. I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
minus-square@repungnant_canarylinkEnglish3•edit-212 hours ago365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap years
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•21 hours ago365x24=8760 Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•1 day agoIt could be tidally locked to the sun too. Then days would truly cease to exist, you’d just have a hot side and a cold side.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦linkfedilinkEnglish3•13 hours agoTidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•23 hours agoIt could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is “the earth has stopped rotating”, not “the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year”.
If the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer.
I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together.
I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year
365x24=8760
Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
It could be tidally locked to the sun too. Then days would truly cease to exist, you’d just have a hot side and a cold side.
Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating
It could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is “the earth has stopped rotating”, not “the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year”.