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It is a scientific fact that the Earth revolves around the sun 365 days, 6 hours and 9 minutes. The 6 hours and 9 minutes is to do with a leap year. There is nothing religious about that.
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All of the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun.
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(sighing at the answers given so far) *** We have two "ways" of looking at this CORRECTLY and SCIENTIFICALLY: classical (Newtonian) mechanics, and relativistic (Einsteinian) mechanics. *** In classical mechanics, the center of the Solar System is the barycenter - that is to say: the center of mass - of the Solar System. In this view, the Earth no more "revolves around the Sun" than it revolves around Mercury or Venus. The Sun - like the planets - orbits about the barecenter. The Sun IS MERELY CLOSER TO THE BARYCENTER than are any of the planets. Again: the Earth - like EVERYTHING else in the Solar System - - orbits about the barycenter. The Sun is not the barycenter, and usually the barycenter is not within the space occupied by the Sun (though admittedly that does occur regularly, it is more often not true than true). Contrast that to the Earth-Moon orbital system, where the barycenter is ALWAYS within the space occupied by the Earth. In that case: we CAN accurately say that the Moon "revolves around the Earth". We can NOT accurately say that about the Earth relative to the Sun. So: in classical mechanics, the Sun is not the center of the Solar System, the Sun is not AT the center of the Solar System, and the planets (in general) and the Earth (in particular) do NOT orbit about the Sun.*** So what about relativistic mechanics? Here, the ground-breaking premise popularized by Einstein applies: "all motion is relative to the frame of reference of the observer". Note: it's not "all motion appears to be relative to the frame of reference of the observer" - which is typically the view taken by those who teach classical mechanics. Rather, it's "all motion in fact and in reality is relative to the frame of reference of the observer". According to relativistic mechanics, the Sun does not merely seem to be orbiting the Earth. The Sun in fact and in reality is orbiting the Earth...that is: FROM the frame of reference of the Earth, which is typically the frame of reference of nearly every human who has ever lived. So: according to relativistic mechanics, the Sun is not the center of the Solar System, the Sun is not AT the center of the Solar System, and from the point of view of everyone on Earth, the Sun - in fact and in reality, not just in seeming - revolves around the Earth. *** Finally is the point of heresy. Now: the scientific truth is that the Sun is NOT the center of the Solar System, heliocentrism is a flawed and inaccurate theory, and in fact the Earth does not revolve around the Sun (again: any more than it revolves around Mercury or Venus, who - like the Sun - have orbits that are closer to the barycenter than is Earth's orbit). That is true despite what some may think or feel, based on over-simplified and faulty grade school models of the Solar System. The scientific truth of the matter is only "heresy" to those who believe BASED INACCURATELY and UNSCIENTIFICALLY ON FAITH (in these over-simplified models) that the Sun is at the center of the Solar System and that the planets "revolve around the Sun". What's more: physicists have known that is not true for well over 100 years.
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