this application is a live wallpaper or screensaver of moving earth wallpaper
the day-night has carried you around in a grand circle under the stars every day of your life, and yet you don’t feel earth spinning. why not? it’s because you and everything else including earth’s oceans and atmosphere are spinning along with the earth at the same constant speed. think about riding in a car or flying in a plane. beautiful earth live wallpaper. as long as the ride is going smoothly, you can almost convince yourself you’re not moving. a jumbo jet flies at about 500 miles per hour (about 800 km per hour), or about half as fast as the earth spins at its equator. but, while you’re riding on that jet, if you close your eyes, you don’t feel like you’re moving at all.
and when the flight attendant comes by and pours coffee into your cup, the coffee doesn’t fly to the back of the plane. that’s because the coffee, the cup and you are all moving at the same rate as the plane. now think about what would happen if the car or plane wasn’t moving at a constant rate, but instead speeding up and slowing down. then, when the flight attendant poured your coffee look out! likewise, earth is moving at a fixed rate, and we’re all moving along with it, and that’s why we don’t feel earth’s spin. if earth’s spin were suddenly to speed up or slow down, you would definitely feel it. beautiful earth live wallpaper. the constant spin of the earth had our ancestors pretty confused about the true nature of the cosmos. they noticed that the stars, and the sun and the moon, all appeared to move above the earth. because they couldn’t feel earth move, beautiful earth live wallpaper, they logically interpreted this observation to mean that earth was stationary and the heavens moved above us. it wasn’t until the 16th century that the heliocentric model of copernicus began to be discussed and understood. while not without errors, copernicus’ model eventually convinced the world that earth spun on its axis beneath the stars and also moved in orbit around the sun.