If a large mass puts a dent in the fabric of space and causes things to move toward it how do you explain the tilt in orbits?
1 Answer
One has nothing to do with the other.
Explanation:
Tilt refers to how an object sits relative to the solar plane. The earth sits at a 23.5 degree tilt but that is because relative to the solar plane.
Tilt is the measure of north/south poles to the solar plane.
The earth has intrinsic motion 18.5 miles per second. That is straight line motion as described by Newton's first law of motion.
Now, relative to the earth, and measured against our own gravity, the measure of the sun's pull upon the earth is about 0.0006 of the earth's gravity. Not much strength but just enough to be that outside force referred to in Newton's 1st law of motion.
Were the sun's gravity suddenly to go to zero the earth would stop moving about the sun and start moving in a straight line away form it, albeit a tangential line.
