[Southack]

If you can measure the angle of the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and if you know where the Sun and Earth are located and how fast they are traveling, what then would stop you from observing if the center of the Earth's orbital plane was focused upon where the Sun was located 8.3 minutes ago?

[Aric2000]

Like I said, I am an amateur just using the knowledge that I have and a dose of common sense, I think that you are making it far more difficult then it has to be.

If Gravity travels at the speed of light, then the gravity that hits us now, left the sun 8.3 minutes ago. We are always in the same place relative to the sun, it takes us with it, therefore your question makes NO sense to me.

Because No matter what the NOW is, the earth is always on the same orbital plane, because the gravity that effects us NOW, is the same amount of gravity that will effect us 8.3 minutes from NOW. Now if the gravity had different strengths, then we could measure it, and we would bounce all over the place and be VERY uncomfortable.

It's been fun, but time for me to go to bed, have a very BIG 4 days ahead of me.

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