The Bible claims that the sun stopped moving in the sky for a whole day. This is impossible without great catastrophe according to mainstream physics but an explanation from vortex physics allows this to happen in a manner consistent with biblical texts.
“‘O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.’ So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on [or, ‘triumphed over’] its enemies… The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day” (Josh10:12,13).
A modern day interpretation is that it is the Earth that has somehow stopped turning, giving the impression of the sun being stationary in the sky for a day. This is not possible according to classical physics and so physicists (including Einstein) have come up with the idea that the poles could one day become top-heavy with ice and the whole planet topples on its side for a bit before either restoring its position or taking up a new position with North and South poles switched around.
Needless to say, such an inversion would create havoc upon Earth, with earthquakes, the splitting if the Earth’s crust, and catastrophic flooding as the Earth stops turning but the oceans continue to rotate at 1000 mph. However, the text describing Joshua’s Long Day makes no mention of flooding, merely the sun standing still. Is this possible?
The assumption of classical physics is that the Earth behaves according to the same physical laws as a gyroscope spinning near the surface of the planet. This is a big assumption, however, as the two situations are completely different. The gyroscope spins within the Earth’s gravitational field, which acts as an inertial frame of reference to give it its characteristic behaviour, whilst the Earth spins with reference to.. what? Space?
The problem is that such a reference frame has never been established, with Newton and Mach never quite resolving their differences and as a result we simply cannot say whether the Earth is a big gyroscope or not.
A description which is consistent with the facts so far is that the Earth is at the centre of a cosmic vortex and turns in accordance with such a vortex. The layer close to the Earth’s surface forms an inertial frame of reference for a spinning gyroscope or Newton’s Bucket, whilst the planet spins in harmony with the vortex as a whole.
The behaviour of a spinning Earth is therefore quite different from the behaviour of a gyroscope. It is quite possible for a glitch in the vortex to dramatically alter the spin of the Earth and evidence for this is that the rotational speed of the planets Earth and Venus, at least, will vary from day to day with no ill effects. If the behaviour of the vortex were to put the Earth on its side for a while, then the whole frame of reference is also displaced and nothing unusual will happen at the surface.
A spinning gyroscope gets its angular momentum from the inertial field but the Earth is not spinning with respect to such a field (it is spinning ‘with’ the field) and therefore has no angular momentum. Newtonian mechanics does not apply here. If the Earth turns on its side, then the gravitational field also turns and everything operating within the new frame of reference. The Earth is not moved by any ‘force’ but instead by a shift in the ‘geometry of space’. Every atom in the Earth is subject to such a shift at the same time and so all particles and energies in the planet, its oceans and its atmosphere, move in concert with each other with no local disturbances such as floods or earthquakes.
Neither Newton nor Mach established a consistent frame of reference for anything at all and so this hypothesis cannot be said to contradict their theories, since there is no ‘basis’ for such theories.