True Orbits of Planets, Not What You Imagine

Things that make you go hmmm…

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Ah, Vsauce did a bit on this as well. Blew my mind.

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It also means that your birthplace is hundreds of millions of kilometres away and you will not be able to return to the very spot in the universe of which you were born.

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So, if the Sun just stopped, we’d all just smash into it.

That’s cool. Now do it with gravity waves in three dimensions.

Try 4 dimensions.

Read a science fiction novel where they started picking up signals from a far-off point in the solar system, and gradually realised it was a time-travel message from a research lab in 1964- the Earth had moved since then.

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