[stubernx98]

Huh, 20%+ of the people don’t know the earth rotates around the sun?????

[PA Engineer]

Huh, 20%+ of the people don’t know the earth rotates around the sun?????

Really, I am surprised it is that low. I worked in a Planetarium as one of the jobs to put myself through college. I would give a lecture on the Foucault pendulum and have many look perplexed that the earth revolved around the sun. I am not surprised. The sad part is these people vote.

[onedoug]

Actually, Earth orbits the Sun. Earth rotates on its axis.

[AndyJackson]

20%+ of the people don’t know the earth rotates around the sun?????

I don't, actually. Any physicist knows that this depends upon your frame of reference, and you can take the earth as the fixed point in your coordinate system and describe the sun as revolving around the earth. Indeed, as another poster pointed out, if you take a rotating point on the earth's surface, the sun rotates around that every 24hrs.

But yeah, since I doubt that the 20% are schooled in the theory of relativity, one does have to wonder.