Is Our Current Orbit Around the Sun Relatively New?

Ancient myth's from far and near has it that the sun once stood still in the skies for a day. A reference to this can be found in Joshua 10-13 in the bible, but it is also mentioned other places. The Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico have a similar record.

There are many ways to interpret this. However, what is rarely considered is that the story may refer to a change in our planet's orbit. If our planet quite abruptly went from a relatively close orbit to a wider orbit around the Sun, our planet and our Moon may have experienced a disturbance to their combined orbits, giving people the impression that the Sun and Moon were standing still.

One way that this could have happened would be if our Sun's gravity changed rather abruptly, something that is possible if gravity is a function of capacitance rather than mass. The distance between our planet and the Moon may have been upset by this disturbance, causing Earth's rotation to change temporarily before the Moon returned to its normal orbit.

Solar system

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