2006-12-13 02:36:47 · 12 answers · asked by davidjmancuso 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Only to those north of the equator. People living below the equator are standing upsidedown so it's backwards to them!
2006-12-13 02:43:28 · answer #1 · answered by Back in the game... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the direction the Earth rotates makes the sun appear to "rise" in the east and set in the west. The sun does neither. We're spinning, man. If the rotation reversed, the sun would rise in the west.
2006-12-13 02:39:55 · answer #2 · answered by Boatman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ALWAYS! unless you turn the earth's axis to clockwise direction so that the sun will rise on the west and set in the east.
2006-12-13 02:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by abruptio placenta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
over the previous couple of thousand years, sure, the sunlight has constantly risen and set it bearing directly to an identical course on any given vantage factor on the exterior of the planet. there is one phenomena which could make an alteration to that reported as the "presession of the equinoxes", yet this result cycles each 25,seven-hundred years. additionally, the precession could only substitute the attitude of rotation by 23.4 tiers, no longer by an entire one hundred eighty tiers required to work out the sunlight upward thrust in the west and set in the east. This whether assumes which you define the 4 cardinal instructions based upon the rotation of the planet, it is smart in case you desire to contemplate the end result on climate, ice caps, etc. in case you define instructions based upon the magnetic poles by making use of a compass, then sure at cases the sunlight will upward thrust from the "magnetic west" and set in the "magnetic east". it is by means of an result reported as geomagnetic reversal, which reasons Earth's magnetic field to opposite at assorted periods. This result isn't o.k. understood, and that's believed that the final occurance, reported as the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal, got here approximately approximately 780,000 years in the past. yet those events do no longer unquestionably alter the orientation of Earth on the subject of the sunlight, only the process the magnetic poles.
2016-12-18 12:44:22 · answer #4 · answered by vazid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because the Earth never stop spinning from west to east
2006-12-13 02:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by HN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun is stationary--it does not rise or set. Your observation depends on where we are on the Earth in relation to its turning on its axis.
2006-12-13 02:48:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in days ending in Y
2006-12-13 02:44:21 · answer #7 · answered by tallerfella 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got it. Its been like this ever since earth was created and it started rotating. Its the direction of this rotation that determines the direction of Sunrise and Sunset.
2006-12-13 02:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by JD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope I'm no longer alive if it ever changes
2006-12-13 02:44:29 · answer #9 · answered by Kate J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only in days that end in y
lowwercase y that is
2006-12-13 02:45:37 · answer #10 · answered by outbaksean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋