Well, I suppose you could define a stationary horizontal position as a point where the sun rises at a certain time each day. Then you could say that a plate is in fact "moving east" if the sun is rising earlier (by very small fractions of a second) each day.
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Well, I suppose you could define a stationary horizontal position as a point where the sun rises at a certain time each day. Then you could say that a plate is in fact "moving east" if the sun is rising earlier (by very small fractions of a second) each day.