What is evidence that the earth moves?

Question

i need a good answer to why it moves and how i can prove it..

Answer 1

   Because it stays in orbit and the sun sets and rises.

Answer 2

In a Universe with no Laws, you can't prove anything.

Proof is evidence sufficient to convince.  To someone who already IS convinced, no evidence at all is needed.  To someone who has a stong faith that can't be swayed, no evidence will convince (of a fact in conflict to his/her faith).  So, there is no absolute proofs out there.

Anyway, evidence that the Earth moves

If the Earth were stationary you would have to explain day and night by requiring the Sun to circle the Earth.  With the laws of conservation of momentum, the change in the Sun's position with the change in the seasons would be a huge problem.  We'd probably have to invent a new "Force" that only worked on the Sun.

On earth we know that the speed of light is a limit.  Looking out into space we see galaxies millions of light years away.  If they were orbiting around the Earth once a day, they would be going much much faster than the speed of light.  

The effects of the laws of gravitation can be measured in the lab.  Planets orbiting the earth violate those laws.  Again, we would need to invent another law to explain why the planets orbit us so fast.  In fact, Uranus and Neptune (and anything further away) would have to orbit faster than the speed of light.

So.  None of what I wrote really addresses the orbiting of the Earth around the Sun, just the earths spin.

The retrograde motion of the planets couldn't happen without them disintegrating and smashing up.  But that isnt about spin...

Answer 3

The radius of the earths orbit is around 93,000,000 miles. So the earth goes 18.5 miles/ second around the sun.

If the earth wasn't moving, we would not be having this discussion.

Everything moves.

Answer 4

The retrograde motion of planets in the sky.

Answer 5

Day and night is the first proof for earths self rotation

Changing night sky constellations at different months is the proof that the earth goes round the sun.

Ultimately,use Facalults pedulam to prove earths self roation,

Answer 6

Look at Faucults Pendulum - althought I don't know how to spell his name.

A pendulum with a nearly friction free mount will swing back and forth almost forever, and its path should remain undesturbed unless acted upon by a force. But  its path slowly changes due to the earth spinning under it. The closer you go to the poles, the faster the pendulum seems to change its direction. At the equator, its doesn't. At the south pole it goes in the opposite direction from at the north pole. All these facts takken together prove that the earth is spinning.  

Answer 7

day n night, season changes, tides(caused by the gravitation of the moon),

Answer 8

if it wouldn't move it would be one half dark and very very cold,and the other half would be very hot! on one half just night,at the other side just daylight! without life! if it would stop moving from now on,every planet and every creature would die in 1 or 2 years

Answer 9

If it did not move, then how come we are not always facing towards the sun?  And before you pull a "geocentric" card, Venus and Mercury don't revolve around us.  Besides that, Satellites in space have clearly recorded we are moving, and taken pictures over time to prove it.

Answer 10

The aberration of light and stellar parallax provide compelling evidence for orbital movement.  Foucault's pendulum and the Coriolis effect on weather patterns do the same for rotation. Google those and you should find what you need.