I got a thumb down for saying the earth travels in an elliptical orbit? Who's arguing against that?

Answer 1

Welcome to the religion section - where science is voted down.

Answer 2

I not only agree, but I'll tell you why the Earth is fatter on one side facing the moon and not as fat, but still squeezed out on the other side opposite the side with the moon. It's because the moon's gravity is pulling on the water. As the world turns, it even pulls on people and trees. Facing the moon, the gravitational conflict is greatest. On the opposite side of the globe, there's an effect to balance the disturbance, but not as much as on the side facing the moon. And thus time is created because of this pushing and pulling synchronized with day and night. This is most evident with the ocean tides. Albert Einstein explained this in the best way possible. In a sense, the Earth is more egg-shaped than a perfect sphere. The bulge at the equator is certainly not caused by the Earth's rotation. It's caused by gravitational conflict between Earth and the moon. One side of the moon is always facing Earth because of this. Since the moon is the weaker of the two bodies, it gets affected worse. It's pulled on so much by the Earth that it can't even rotate on its own, but it's stuck facing the Earth as it orbits. This gravity is certainly not a theory either, for Einstein's gravity proposal was proven with the 1914 eclipse. The light from the stars behind the sun was bent around it, making the stars look like they were somewhere other than where they really were. That effect is called 'gravitational lensing.' Gravity is a warping of time-space geometry that can even 'bend' light. However, relative to the photon, the light is traveling in a straight line. Relative to an observer on Earth, the light ray is bent.

Answer 3

Arguing aginst which? The thumbs down or the eliptical orbit thing? I iwll agrue against the thumbs down because anyone that took a science class knows that the earths orbit is eliptical. The distance from the sun varies by about 2 million miles (93,000,000 to 95,000,000) depending on the position in the orbit.

Answer 4

The earth travels in an almost perfectly circular orbit. It's technically elliptical, the eccentricity is very minute, so it's possible that one might be convinced it is circular.

It's still not worth a thumbs down.

Answer 5

Don't worry about it. There is always somebody who puts a thumb down just for the fun of it.
Unless you said it while making a nasty comment about the person you were answering. In that case the thumbs down might have been because of the way you were saying it and not because of your description of the earth's orbit.

Answer 6

Don't bother. I've been thumbs downed for a lot more petty reasons than that.

I suppose its someone who believes that the sun travels in orbit around the earth!

Answer 7

Those 3 blind mice are at it again. They just click away and can't see what their clicking.
I've noticed some very good answers a lot of times that get thumbs down and you just gotta believe its from someone insignificant.

Answer 8

I don't know, some people are werid. On one question I answered that you should live a good life as best you can...it seemed a lot of people must have disagreed with that because I got about 6 thumps down.

Answer 9

And now you have two... congratulations. Not that it was a bad answer... (not the least bit of thought put into it, but then again those are the kinds of answers I have come to expect, especially from someone who's been a member an entire month and has managed 2500 or so points) but, instead you decided to draw attention to yourself and that annoyed me. Good day.

Answer 10

sorry for the thumbs down...honestly speaking i haven't read your answer.don't worry better luck next time...when i see your answer i will give you thumb up.i'm sure that was a good answer.maybe they don't know the meaning of elliptical orbit.explain it to that person/persons.

Answer 11

Wasn't that on my question?

I wouldn't have given a thumbs down.