2006-10-31 05:48:29 · 3 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
it depends on how you set up your coordinate system.
I mean i could set up a system such that the earth is not spinning. But then every thing else in the universe will be spinning.
But i think the question that you are asking is if all celestial bodies are rotating in some way or another.
The answer is that 99.99999% of the time bodies are spinning on their axis. If they are not it is just because something has hit it a bunch of times and it is by pure chance that it is not.
For you see.... for really big objects, they were formed from a gas/dust cloud. This dust cloud started to condence in to a planet. But on the way to that they started to rotate around in to a disk and the plannet that formed was formed in this rotating dust cloud. Thus all planets will be rotating (unless they were hit by a really big meteor at the exact right angle...). This is the same with stars, galaxies, clusters, superclusters.
I guess if the bigbang theory is correct, the universe is the only thing that as a total mass is not rotateing.
on the other hand small things in the univers like rocks and small asteroids... they have been hit by so many things that they will be rotating in all sorts of weird ways.
2006-10-31 06:00:51 · answer #1 · answered by farrell_stu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-10-31 05:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pretty sure that's a yeah
2006-10-31 05:56:24 · answer #3 · answered by nic_tammyscott 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋