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Hey, I was reading something on circular motion and Einstein's theory of relativity and all about gravity but what I don't get is everything in our universe everything is attracted by gravity but our sun isn't but yet its still in the same place I don't understand it someone explain why our sun doesn't drift off into another galaxy.
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Sun is a camper thats the reason.
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Actually the sun does move due to gravitational pull from heavenly bodies in the solar system.
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Oh okay, thanks for telling me that now I know
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You could think of the solar system moving together as a ship on the ocean. The sun is our mast with everything rotating around it. It appears as though the mast isn't moving compared to the rest of the ship because all the pieces are moving together and if there aren't any other ships close enough to compare to, then you can't see that the ship is moving at all.
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