[Multiverse (Grant)]

Originally Posted by morls

Without reading up on this, I imagine the earth's orbit would trace a more or less level path around the sun. If I was to imagine this as a spiral I would have to first assume the solar system as a whole is moving through space in a direction perpendicular to the earth's orbit. This would then I suppose trace out a spiral.

If the movement of the solar system as a whole was not perpendicular to the orbit of the earth then the spiral would not be as I imagine a spiral to be - which is like a slinky.

I strongly suspect my conception of this is waaaay off. The answer might lie in topology, but it's hard for me to know because I'm not on top of () all the dimensions in the universe which would need to be taken into account for such a model to be formulated.

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