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Actually the earth, sun, and other planets orbit a common center of gravity that would lie somewhere betwen the center of the sun and the orbit of Mercury.
Its what causes the wobble that we’ve used to detect planets around some other stars.
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hahaha. pathetic.
Nobody seems willing to grasp what Einstein meant, in introducing his theory of General Relativity in The Evolution Of Physics, when he wrote:
"The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, 'the sun is at rest and the earth moves,' or 'the sun moves and the earth is at rest,' would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS."
So, according to Einstein, geocentrism is not so much a matter of "right" or "wrong," but a point of view based upon a CS or coordinate system, and, according to him, the debate was rendered moot by General Relativity.
I expect the controversy will continue, though, because no one is willing to grasp the implications. It threatens too much orthodoxy, in which a powerful hierarchy is too thoroughly vested.
Sounds like history is repeating itself, but the shoe is on the other foot, lol.
Thanks for posting the article.
Galileo was right about the earth going around the sun but Galileo was wrong about earth not being the “center of the universe.”
Actually, everything, every atom, is at the center of its space-time continuum. Everything, no matter where it is, is the same distance in space and time from the edge of the universe defined as the “Big Bang.” Everything, therefore, is at the “center of the universe” at all times, including earth.
Everyone’s models were wrong until Kepler, reluctantly, gave up on circles and suggested the planets follow ellipses.
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They all got it wrong.
Barack Obama is the center of the universe.
Just ask him.
I've got to call BS on this one. There is NO WAY that observing Mars, Venus and Saturn rotating around the sun, could possibly fit any theory where they rotate around the earth. Absolutely no way. Uh uh. I don't buy it. No way.
But all the caterwauling over Galileo and suppression of science by catholicism is rather ironic given that for approximately a thousand years it was largely the catholic church that preserved and advanced science.
Sure they suppressed some science because it was religiously unorthodox, but at least they have the excuse that religion was the primary focus and the whole science thing was just a lucrative diversion.
The secular priesthood of science we have today has no such excuse.