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ELI5: Do people on opposite sides of the earth experience a time difference if the Earth's rotating into / away from sun's trajectory? (lemmit.online)

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/humble_oppossum on 2023-06-27 16:20:11+00:00.

I started thinking about spacetime and how it's relative to the speed.

So, knowing our sun is in rotation inside our galaxy, are there points in which the earths rotation causes a person on one side of the earth to accelerate into the direction of the sun's trajectory while a person on the other side travels slower towards the sun's direction.

I know this would be imperceivable to our brain, but I'm curious how much spacetime fluctuates

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