Why does Earth not get pulled into the Sun? Isn't God good?

Answer 1

Picard (and who would know better?) has this right. Let me expand upon his answer.

Objects are attracted to one another because of gravity. Objects that are moving through space however have another force on them, and that is inertia. So two objects fall toward one another, but they miss because of other forces, the attraction between them remains, and they continue to fall toward one another, and keeping missing. The natural path of this motion is circular or elliptical. It is an orbit.

Another way to visualize this, because I know that takes some thinking, is to imagine a rocket shot into space from Earth. Now in order for it to break away from the Earth's gravity, it must be moving at at least 7 miles a second. At just this speed it has exactly as much outward energy as the energy of the gravity pulling it back. There is nothing that it can do but circle, in equipoise between these two forces. Imagine the same rocket without sufficient energy... it takes a long parabolic curve back to the Earth's surface. Another rocket with much more energy breaks free of the orbital trajectory and moves out into the universe, once again in a long curved trajectory.

A further thought. Many people think there is no gravity in space. This is a misconception. Gravity's influence reaches quite far, or the earth would not orbit the sun. The reason for apparent weightlessness is that the spaceship and its occupants are moving together at the same speed. This makes the occupants feel weightless...

Answer 2

If anything, The Earth is slowly moving away from the Sun much as the Moon is moving away from Earth. But the most likely scenario is that the Sun will reach it's Red Giant stage and balloon until it's diameter reaches roughly the orbital path of Mars.

Answer 3

Because God is just playing with the Earth for the moment. Like a cat playing with a dying mouse. After that He will slowly fry it with the sun. Just for His own perverse amusement. Like a cat playing with a de-winged bird.

Answer 4

To the finest of my awareness there is no longer something in the universe that is no longer shifting and maximum in all likelihood each and every of the bodies (asteroids, comets, etc) in our galaxy are literally orbiting (shifting round) the daylight and a threat round a planet. something with mass is effecting the circulation of thousands and thousands of alternative bodies in our image voltaic equipment. Our planet, like the different planets, moons, asteroids, and comets did not variety at a stand nevertheless and neither did our sunlight or the different movie star. no longer in basic terms were they shaped from a cloud of swirling molecules, that cloud and each and every thing round it became also rotating round what's in all probability to be a black hollow and mutually shifting remote from something else of "area". I propose that you surely study about what you attempt to talk about because you're making baseless assumptions that are ridiculous.

Answer 5

ahh yeah sure - will you think he is bad then when the sun becomes a red giant before its end, and engulfs the earth in it's outer layers?

Answer 6

God is good all the times, that is what i am experiencing every movment of my life, HE is loving, and waiting all to be saved, HIS mercies endures for ever, for HE so loved the world HE gave HIS only son, that who so ever believes in HIM (JESUS) may have life enternal

Answer 7

Thank God I don't have to worry about this stuff. I am just brainwashed in bliss.

Answer 8

God has nothing to do with this and it would not make him 'good' by any means.

Answer 9

It's called basic science...something u should have learnt in elementary school.

Answer 10

inertia, it keeps missing the sun