occurs in early January. The corresponding thing happens around the summer solstice. Why doen these dates coincide with each other, and with the solstice itself??
Reply This may be related to an extra correction to solar time known as “equation of time”, reaching a maximum around +16 minutes in November and a minimum around –14 minutes in February. A similar effect (but smaller) occurs in summer The matter is also discussed at “Variation in time of Sunrise” http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~twatts/sunrise/sunrise.html Response Thanks for the information. It finally resolves my questions about this phenomenon. Now I can finally stop recording the morning sunrises and evening sunsets throughout the year. 340. Falling off the Earth’s Bottom? My 2nd Grade grandson is full of science questions, and now one for some reason I absolutely cannot answer: If the world is round, why don’t people on the “bottom” side of the world feel as if they are upside down? I assume it has something to do with gravity, but I also wonder if it has something to do with the structure of brains and how they perceive.
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