Now, I'm just more confused. Lol

that doesn't make sense. Surely the earth rotates in an anti clockwise direction no matter where you are. The sun still rises in the east in Australia.

@Moravian only because everyone agreed to that a long time ago when it was decided that the earth circled the sun and not the other way round. It saves confusion I think.

@FrayedBear Yes I get that but the earth spinning on it's axis is anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere but how can it be clockwise in the southern hemisphere. ?

@Moravian However, i fyou are in the Southern hemisphere, the South pole can be considered "up" just as easily. If it had not been arbitrarily decided that North was "up", then each memisphere woudl likely use the closest pole as a point of reference as to whether the earth rotated clockwise or counter clockwise.

So yeah, technically because peole agreed on which pole was "up" a while back, it would all seem the same. I was jus thinking in terms of the decison of which wy was "up" having not been made. In which case my description would be accurate in terms of perspective would depend on whether you lived in the North or Southern hemispheres.

@Moravian It takes a bit of out of the box thinking. I was thinking in terms of no arbitrary decision having been made about which pole, North or South was considered to be "up". In that case to everyone below the equator, it would seem the earth rotated clockwise... that is if they saw the South pole as the "up" direction.

So yeah, if everyone agrees which pole is on top or "up" then the earth only seems to rotate ione direction.

My point shoudl have been more along the lines at how arbitrary such assignations really are, or I should have been more clear about from where my line3 of thought was coming from.

@Moravian only if the north and south observers are facing each other across the equator will east be on the right hand of one and the left of the other.

Uhhh... well... umm...