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0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 days
Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 months ago
you’ve got it. the period of the sun up/sun down cycle would be the orbital period.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
alkheemist@aussie.zone 2 months ago
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.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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”.
rockerface@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Tidal locking still requires the planet to be rotating