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Do all the planets revolve around the sun in the same direction?
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do all the moons of the planets revolve around their respective planets the same way? if not why not? if the universe was created by a big bang where everything collapsed in and exploded why doesnt it all spin the same way?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Although, as stated by squarebear, all planets in our solar system rotate about the Sun in the same direction, there are some interesting anomalies. Such as Venus rotating in the opposite direction of its revolution about the sun (retrograde motion). A number of the moons in the solar system exhibit retrograde motion, as well. The Sun rotates on it's axis once every 25 days, but not all at the same time due to its gaseious nature.. Interestingly, Uranus rotates on its side, tilted over some 98 degrees. Pluto, which has, in the last year, been declared person non grata as a planet, has a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun, taking nearly 248 years to make one orbit.. (Source: Astronomy: Fundamentals and Frontiers)
By the way, your view of the Big Bang doesn't comport very well with current theory... It didn't collapse out of a preexisting universe, but, rather, appeared suddenly and expanded at least intially, at speeds much greater than the speed of light (c from the Latin celeritas (speed))... .
By the way, your view of the Big Bang doesn't comport very well with current theory... It didn't collapse out of a preexisting universe, but, rather, appeared suddenly and expanded at least intially, at speeds much greater than the speed of light (c from the Latin celeritas (speed))... .
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