On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:05:26 -0700, "Annette Taylor, Ph. D." wrote:
> ps: BTW it's a bit of misconception to say the sun rises in the
> east....it actually rises in the southeast, east and northeast... ;)
You do have a point here, as illustrated in the following image:
http://www.aqualoc.us/images/equinox.jpg
More on this is provided by the following article:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art41767.asp
There is also a deeper point: sunrise and sunset are meaningful
concepts only in a geocentric conception of the solar system/universe:
Hemingway nowithstanding, the sun neither rises or sets, rather
the earth rotates towards the sun and our position on the earth
puts us on a treajectory towards the sun ("sunrise") or away from
it ("sunset"). I think Buckminster Fuller may have written a rant
about this somewhere but I don't remember where. Wikipedia
provides some info (and pretty pictures, even a sunrise over
Daytona Beach :-) on these points as well as Fuller's suggested
substitutes for sunrise ("sunsight") and sunset ("sunclipse"). See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise
However, since I was talking informally among friends, I thought
that I could get away with the incorrect but more familiar "sunset".
;-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
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> Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
> Professor of Psychology
> University of San Diego
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