Month: August 2010

  • The World is Rotating

    “Is it night in Kampala, too?”
    “It’s the middle of the night there. It’s 8 p.m. here … so it’s about four in the morning there.”
    “Why is that?”
    “Well, the earth is spinning around the sun. And the sun shines on different parts of the earth.”
    “We are spinning, too?”
    “Yes, we are.”
    “We don’t feel it?”
    “No, because we’re spinning at the same rate as the earth.”
    “And we are not dizzy?”