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Quadibloc wrote:
The reason the Earth rotates today is that it rotated yesterday. It *started* rotating because of the angular momentum of the material out of which it condensed, billions of years ago. But there is no ongoing energy input to make the Earth rotate. BTW, everything seems to be in rotation (planets, stars, galaxies, cluster of galaxies). Where does the original angular momentum come from? Is it explained by GR? FU to sci.astro -- Florian "Tout est au mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles" Voltaire vs Maupertuis/Leibniz/Meister |
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