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Old 04-March-2008, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by parallaxicality
Eventually, as we speed up further, the Sun's daily path becomes a single radiant beam that begins to rock back and forth from solstice to solstice, and, with more speed, itself merges into... what? An eye? A wall? I wasn't sure. Does the Sun rise from the same point every day, or does it shift further south/north during the year?
The sun does not rise and set form the same point, it moves north in the winter and south in the summer (that's why ancient monuments like stonehenge can be set up so that the sun rises in line with some marker at only a specific time of year). You can see a diagram on this page.So you'd get a thicker line. I'll think about the precession issue and what that would do to things.
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