When the Earth orbits around the sun, relatively speaking, does it circle in the same path each time?

Question

When the Earth orbits around the sun, relatively speaking, does it circle in the same path each time?

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Answer 1

Everything is relative… and the answers are usually yes and no.

Relative to the sun, tehcnically no, but practically yes…ish, within our limited lifetime, it is as same as it can get.

It changes over a long period of time, we are talking about hundreds of thousands of years.

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But relative to the center of the galaxy or the universe itself… Same doesn’t really exist anymore, change is the fundamental law of everything.