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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (32 children)

Technically, the sun is pulled by the earth too so it’s sort of true.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Except it's still inside the sun, so depending on how big you view the center of the sun it could still be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The sun isn't orbiting itself, though, so to say it's wrong is also wrong. The sun is orbiting a small point in space that is affected by the bodies around it. That the point is covered by the sun doesn't change that.

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