It was god wot done it...........again.
We live on a moving, living, planet without promises of what may happen next, as is the case with our lives
Anyway, life would be really boring without "World events"
Moving through space at roughly 67,000 MPH whilst spinning at about 1000 MPH.
The old girl certainly has a fair turn of speed.
And we are all holding on by the grace of God and the skin of our teeth!!
Actually all held on by gravity, as discovered by apples
Gravity is the least of mans worries, but on the subject of that force scientists are now identifying an interesting concept of Newton's observation.
Scientists are giving credit to it is not just gravity that makes the apple fall to earth, but also a case that the Earth is coming up to greet the apple.
That was debated/discussed/pondered even while I was doing A level physics ... some 50 years ago !! The theory of gravitational attraction easily allows for the large object to move towards the small one by a minuscule, almost infinitesimal, amount, look how the surface of the earth moves towards the sun twice a day... high tide caused by gravity between moon and earth ...
What we never solved was the question set by Doc Hayward (our Physics Head was Justin Hayward's - of the Moody Blues - father.. he might not have taught me a whole lot of Physics .. but he did teach me a lot about music !!) ... who set us the question "if the earth moves towards the apple being dropped, even by a minuscule amount . ...... what happens if 6 apples are simultaneously dropped, one at each of the poles, and one at each quarter point on the equator" ... trouble was .. he never gave us an answer !!!