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In article <3mroot$gsl@felix.cc.gatech.edu>,
bombadil@cc.gatech.edu (Michael L. Greene) wrote:
> I know this maybe a really stupid question, but in all my years as an ametuer
> physicist I've never even thought about the subject. What force or nature
> of matter makes objects rotate? Say the Earth rotates as it revolves around
> the Sun. I can easily see why they revolve around the larger bodies, but it
> doesn't seem nearly so intuative as to why they rotate. There must be some
> reason, as almost all do this.
>
> -Mike
"Those who are demons cannot understand how the Supreme Personality
of Godhead floated the earth on water, but to devotees of the Lord
this is not a very wonderful act. Not only the earth but many, many
millions of planets are floating in the air, and this floating
power is endowed upon them by the Lord; there is no other possible
explanation.
The materialists can explain that the planets are floating by the
law of gravitation, but the law of gravitation works under the
control or direction of the Supreme Lord. That is the version of
"Bhagavad-gita", which confirms, by the Lord's statement, that
behind the material laws or nature's laws and behind the growth,
maintenance, production and evolution of all the planetary
systems--behind everything--is the Lord's direction.
[from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's
commentary and translation of "Srimad Bhagavatam" 3.18.9.
published by Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.]
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