I have a question for you. If you are on a planet that is revolving at 16.6 minutes per revolution and a sniper with a laser is one Au from you how many degrees of revolution (from your perspective) would he have to lead you to shoot you? In other words if the sniper is on the sun at dawn and you are facing the sun at dawn and don’t move will the laser pulse hit you in the face or the back of the head?
Please just answer the merry go around questions! They will so clearly demonstrate to all of us how it works. Why bother with a complicated scenario which neither of us can replicate when we can so clearly illustrate it with a merry go around? Sitting on a spinning merry go around (especially if it was on one of the poles) would completely perfectly simulate the earth's rotation speeding up. If the earth's rotation of 2.13 degrees per 8.5 minutes lags the suns apparent position by 2.13 degrees then a merry go around's rotation of 180 degrees per 8.5 minutes will also lag the apparent position of the sun by 180 degrees. But you know that it doesn't!
And if you think that sitting on a rotating merry go around @180Deg/8.5min(Relative to the sun). on the north pole won't have the same effect on the apparent lag of the sun as would speeding up the earth to that speed, imagine sitting on the merry go around on the pole turning at 180 deg/8.5minutes (relative to the sun) and all the sudden *poof* the world vanishes - there you will be with your merry go around, turning at 180Deg/8.5Min, in space, the same distance from the earth, on the same orbit that earth had been on, and now you agree that the merry go around WOULD cause a lag of 180 degrees in the apparent position of the sun.
So enlighten us and show that your statements are true! (or whatever they may be.)
Thanks,
-Jesse