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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"
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Technically, the sun is pulled by the earth too so it’s sort of true.
I mean, yeah. That's the joke.
Oh thanks! I wasn’t sure. /s
A cunning display of deception!
May as well lose the /s
No it's not. The common center here is the center of our galaxy which both orbit. Even if the sun wobbles a miniscule bit there is no common orbit between them.
it is possible for objects to orbit multiple objects at the same time. Add the moon to the system. The moon is orbiting the earth that is orbiting the sun that is orbiting the center of our galaxy. And yes each of them have a common center, just that it is very very close to the center of mass of the larger object in each case.
For the moon the earth is the dominant gravitational force, for the earth it is the sun and for the sun it is the center of gravity.
There's a very famous smart man with zany hair and a big tongue that says your comment is wrong and it's all relative to your frame of reference.
Gene Simmons?
I would have gone with Groucho Marx.
Except it's still inside the sun, so depending on how big you view the center of the sun it could still be wrong.
It's usually not inside the sun thanks to Jupiter's fat ass
My thought exactly but isn't the common center still inside the sun?
Yes, but they still both orbit the black hole in the center of our galaxy
The urge to orbit a black hole is universal
Only until we find something heavier
Looks over shoulder Nobody's going to take this? Sighs Fine. I'll get this one. Clears throat
Now we all orbit KidnappedByKitties mom.
The common centre is the galaxy they both ~~orbit~~ spiral around together.
Then, the galaxy moves around some other point along with other galaxies.
Then, a bunch of aliens are playing with marbles.
Thanks, kurzkesagt
Yeah, any 2 bodies actually orbit a common point in between themselves. In case of the Sun and Earth that point is probably still inside the Sun, not far from the center.
Then Jupiter and Saturn enter the dance and they're all sort of wrong.