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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·9 months agoIf the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer. I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together. I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
minus-squarealkheemist@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·9 months agoIt could be tidally locked to the sun too. Then days would truly cease to exist, you’d just have a hot side and a cold side.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoIt could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is “the earth has stopped rotating”, not “the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year”.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoTidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating
minus-squareHammocks4All@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months ago365x24=8760 Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
minus-squareUmbrias@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoyou’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
minus-squarerepungnant_canary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-29 months ago365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap years
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year
If the earth stopped rotating, days would be about 365x longer.
I wanted to figure out a more exact answer, but I’m hung up on the fact that the length of a day is influenced by rotation and revolution together.
I have a feeling this requires calculus. If Sir Isaac Newton were here, I think he’d know what to do.
It could be tidally locked to the sun too. Then days would truly cease to exist, you’d just have a hot side and a cold side.
It could, and eventually would, but the premise of this comic is “the earth has stopped rotating”, not “the earth is now rotating at 1 revolution per year”.
Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating
365x24=8760
Open 8760 hours a day, 7 days a week
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
365.25 days I believe is the better approximation because it’s the rough time it takes Earth to be in the same spot - hence the leap years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year