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Old 04-06-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by adman View Post
in my own mind I waver between thinking that it is a completely semantic argument based around what you define as spin, and being adamant that there is no spin....
You can of course postulate that the universe spins around Moon's axis. But in the sense of classical mechanics the Moon spins around its axis and has a rotational momentum that it will preserve if whatever force made it spin in the first place goes away.

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