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Quote by: Chris I dont think I am making myself clear.

No. The problem is that you are making yourself quite clear. You just don't know what you are talking about.

Picture yourself on the moon, and imagine the earth is the sun.

For what purpose? What should I imagine the sun is in this case?

Or better yet imagine yourself hovering above the north pole of the moon looking down at the moon.

OK. I can do that.

And you follow it as it travels around the earth in one cycle.

OK. I have just imagined that I have seen the moon turn on its axis one time. Did you have a point?

Just as the earth would revolve around the sun in one year.

What does that mean? Are you not aware that that wasn't a sentence?

The moon will not spin on an axis.

But it does spin on its axis. In fact, I imagined it in two ways (since your statement of the hypothetical was so vague as to allow numerous cases). First, I imagined myself hovering above the moon facing the sun. I observed the moon to rotate on its axis below me. Next I imagined myself in a fixed position in relation to the surface of the moon. I then observed that the sun was in orbit around the moon, while the earth was fixed and immovable, although rotating.

It will only revolve around the earth.

Are you sure? Can you say for a fact that it doesn't leap off and orbit Mars or Jupiter from time to time?

The moon does do a complete 360 relative to the sun but not relative to its revolution around the earth like the earth does.

So you are saying that the moon does not do a 360 degree rotation relative to the earth just as the earth does not do a 360 degree rotation relative to the earth. Did that make sense to you when you typed it?

JUST as I said to begin with. Which of course was not wrong.

Actually, so wrong that it is laughable.

We're all wrong from time to time, but to attempt to defend a position of ignorance after explanation of the error is beyond belief.