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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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[โ€“] niktemadur@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's called a barycenter, kids, a common center that both objects circle around. That common center happens to be inside the sun, but that's a topic for next week's class in this semester's AP Astrophysics program.

[โ€“] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Same for earth and moon. The center is inside earth. But not that close to the center of the earth itself