What makes the earth spin as it orbits the sun?
Around and around and away we go, whether we like it or not, for our dizzy old world is whirling and waltzing around in several different directions at the same time, and we must go along with the whirligig. One of its planetary motions takes us spinning around like a top. Our earth is a born traveler, and scientists suspect that its cosmic whirligig began at the beginning. The young planet most likely was orbiting the sun and spinning on its axis when or soon after it was formed. The yearly orbit is its revolution, the daily spin is its rotation, and the earths revolution and rotation are related to each other. Both move in an easterly direction and are governed by cosmic laws that direct the motions of heavenly bodies. Perhaps the ymung planet planned to travel in a straight line thrcugh empty space without rotating. It has enough speed energy to do this., but such a space trip is possible only under conditions of complete nothingness: and our planet is far from alone in the heavens.
