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The Speed of Light in Vacuum is Constant

Well, in fact, prevalent theory and all observations done to-date indicate that the speed of light in a vacuum…

I believe that this question has been answered before in our answer to “The Earth-Moon Spin-Orbit Resonance” question. The…

The reason that the Moon is slowly moving away from the Earth is due to the interaction of the…

You are correct. Due to the “universal speed limit” for the transport of information in the universe, the speed…

You have the basic idea correct, in that the Sun does shift very slightly due to the gravitational pull…

Your description of the overall motion of the Sun through our galaxy is correct. The orbital motion of the…

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