Posted on 11/18/2014 5:34:10 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Sort of like “wheels within wheels.” The simplest explanation that explains the observations is probably the correct one.
Ohhhh-kayyyy
Lutheran astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer determined in 1676 that the speed of light was finite, not instantaneous, based on the delay in seeing a moon of Jupiter from Earth after the earth had moved in its orbit to the other side of the sun.
In 1838, another Lutheran astronomer and mathematician, Friedrich Bessel, was the first to measure the distance to a star using the parallax method, which depends on the earth moving in an orbit around the sun (rather than the sun moving around a fixed earth).
I took a physics class as an undergrad, one of the tests a question was simply: “Calculate the weight of the moon”
OK.
Land a probe on a comet.
Feel free to use any assumptions you like regarding the structure of the universe.
Zero.
The mass, however, is another story.
I thought time and space revolved around Obama?
Correct I meant to say mass not weight. I got the right answer....
Ohhhh-kayyyy
When I was in fifth grade (1965), I was riding my bike, contemplating life, the universe and everything and sudenly I stopped and asked: What if none of this is real, even the people, and only I am real? What if it is all just an insertion into my consciousness that exists on some other plane?
And decades later we have “The Matrix”. :-P
Fact is, there is so little actual matter making up the universe that it is made out of, essentially, nothing. We only perceive it to be something.
Seriously.
Are you sure your physics question really wasn’t “Calculate the *mass* of the Moon?”
Yes it was mass and it was 30 years ago.
God’s creation is very real, and we are all in it both physically as well as spiritually.
Is it even possible to calculate the mass of kim kardashian’s “mass”?
I thought it was revealed in 1986 when Maradona scored against England.
The weight of the Moon is the gravitational force exerted on it by some other object. For the sake of simplicity in interpreting the question, I’ll ‘assume’ that the other object is Earth. That gravitational force is obviously NOT zero.
Gods creation is very real, and we are all in it both physically as well as spiritually.
But he gave us biological machines (called the natural man) to occupy while we are here. It is designed to perceive this world very much as “something”.
IOW, I’m not denying God. Rather, I’m applauding His creativity!
Never assume. That wasn’t part of the question. My reference point could be the Horsehead Nebula.
You can assume the orbit of the moon is perfect and the radius of the orbit is 238,857 miles cg to cg.
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