Harry K writes:

On Apr 15, 9:01Â*pm, Dan Espen wrote:
Harry K writes:
On Apr 15, 2:35Â*pm, Dan Espen wrote:
" writes:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:04:56 -0700 (PDT), Harry K
wrote:

On Apr 14, 5:02Â*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
Old guy holding his arms up, and the red sea parts? Then, closes back up and
drowns the enemy army?

With power like that, who needs a tactical mag shotgun?

Christopher A. Young

Or stopping the sun at which instant everyone and everything departed
eastard at sumenthing like 18,000 mph. Â*

Um, the equator is something like 24,000 miles long. Â*There are 24hrs in a
day, so your estimate is a "little" high. Â*Still going to leave rubber,
though.

My first thought. Â*Of course if you are not at the equator you're not
going the full 1000 MPH. Â*But the OP said "stopping the Sun".

Someone's got a bad case of geocentrism or is just not scientifically knowledgeable.

Working out what would happen on the Earth if the Sun stopped orbiting
the galaxy at 220 KM/S (1/2 million MPH) would be complicated.
Main thing is we would leave solar orbit and it would either get really hot or
really cold. Â*And eastward makes no sense at all.

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Dan Espen

Eastward because the planet rotates West to East. Â*Stop the sun
implies stopping the earth's rotation. Â*What direction do you think
things will go?

Stopping the sun relative to what?

Obeying the laws of physics, for the suns apparent motion
to stop in our sky,
the earth would have to slow it's rotation. Â*The sun can carry on as
usual.

So you think the SUN rotates around the earth!!!???

So where did I say that?

Yes, you can play with frames of reference all you want but until you
stop the EARTHS rotation, you haven't accomplished your goal.

I don't have a goal and I know that.
I'm commenting on:

Or stopping the sun at which instant everyone and everything departed
eastard at sumenthing like 18,000 mph. Â*

Which mixes up "stopping the sun" with stopping the earth's rotation.

There are many frames of reference but I'm simply using the only
logical one. If you stop the sun, the major influence on the sun's
movement is relative to the center of the galaxy. So stopping the sun
changes the sun's orbital velocity from 1/2 million MPH to zero.

Now, where did your 18,000 MPH come from?

The velocity of the earth's rotation at the equator is 1000 MPH.

And, not to nit pick, but if you want to stop the sun's apparent
motion in the sky, you don't "stop the earth's rotation".

If you stop the earths rotation, the sun still
moves in the sky. It moves pretty slowly, but every year the
sun will complete one apparent circuit around the earth..

So to stop the sun in the sky, you need to slow the rotation of
the earth to one rotation every year so that the same side of
the earth faces the sun all the time.

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Dan Espen