No, dummy. The earth takes 23:56:04 to rotate once, physically, on its axis. But because the earth is moving forward around the sun, the sun doesn’t appear in the same place in the sky at noon until 24:00:00 have passed. It’s not that you “don’t notice,” it’s that they measure two completely different things
No, dummy. The earth takes 23:56:04 to rotate once, physically, on its axis. But because the earth is moving forward around the sun, the sun doesn’t appear in the same place in the sky at noon until 24:00:00 have passed. It’s not that you “don’t notice,” it’s that they measure two completely different things
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