the three body problem being one of my favorite scifi until it was kinda solved a couple years ago
Fallacy fallacy taken to its logical conclusion.
Surly the sun is big wnough that the point actually being orbited is still within the sun?
For our solar system: mostly. But if we lived in a binary star system, the distinction would be much more obvious.
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yes, the earth-sun barycenter is still well within the sun.
not sure why other commenters felt the need to give snark lol
All is relative. All are right. Or wrong. We are orbiting galactic center.
Is the common ground the fact both rotate around the super massive blackhole at the center of our galaxy?
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