Question

movement of the earth and its consequence explain essay
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Answer 1

Answer:

Man is always conscious of the ‘apparent movement of the sun and little realizes that the earth on which he stands is constantly in motion. When the sun disappears, he says that the sun sets and when it emerges, he says that the sun rises.

He is not the least aware that the sun, in fact, does not rise or set, it is ‘we who rise and we who set’! The earth moves in space in two distinct ways: it rotates on its own axis from west to east once in every 24 hours, causing day and night; it also revolves round the sun in an orbit once in every 365¼ days, causing the seasons and the yearWhen the earth rotates on its own axis, only one portion of the earth’s surface comes into the rays of the sun and experiences daylight. The other portion which is away from the sun’s rays will be in darkness.

As the earth rotates from west to east, every part of the earth’s surface will be brought under the sun at some time or other. A part of the earth’s surface that emerges from darkness into the sun’s rays experiences sunrise.

Later, when it is gradually obscured from the sun’s beams it experiences sunset. The sun is, in fact, stationary and it is the earth which rotates. The illusion is exactly the same as when we travel in a fast-moving train.

The trees and houses around us appear to move and we feel that the train is stationary.