I'm partial to 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple.
Posted on 03/28/2006 12:09:01 PM PST by orionblamblam
What do you think Foucault's Pendulum is detecting? It's just a mechanical integrator of change in linear motion.
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James Carville spins. The earth rotates. :^P
I don't know whether the Earth is at the center of the Universe or not. But i do know that the Earth is rotating. Try flying west or east and note the effect on daylight.
I'm partial to 'Highway Star' by Deep Purple.
"How does he feel about Evolution?"
Heck, how does he feel about the Mars Rovers?
And the pictures of "sun/earth eclipse" taken from the voyagers as they sped out of the solar system?
So either God is manipulating every Foucault Pendulum and accelerometer in the world individually, or there is one simple motion that explains the response of every one of these devices. I vote for the simpler answer. God has better things to do than mess with our heads.
This fellow would be right at home here amongst the anti-Es. He even uses the same language - demanding that scientists PROOOOOVE that the Earth rotates.
In a sense, the guy could be right. Movement through space-time is all relative, as Einstein pointed out. Okay, so say the earth stands still and the entire universe moves around it. Depending on your frame of reference, that could be a useful model. We often use it for astronomical charts. It's kind of like saying I didn't drive to the liquor store today, the whole universe moved and I stayed still. Egotistical, sure, but invalid, not from a scientific standpoint.
I haven't been able to oscillate in a 24 hour period since my last marriage.
Sorry, but that effect can also be achieved by the Sun orbiting the earth.
The above comment is of course how you discribe the pendulums motion using the earth as a reference. Using the sun as a reference no forces have to act on the pendulum as the earth rotates around it.
"It's kind of like saying I didn't drive to the liquor store today, the whole universe moved and I stayed still."
Used that one on a cop yet?
I have no doubt some of them are freepers.
No.
I wore out "Made in Japan" years ago.
If you want to choose the tunes, I get to drive. Which means no Pleiades. Instead, we'll go by way of Cassiopeia A.
The model goes nuts when we have to deal with the retrograde motion of Mars, however, which, before Galileo, had been explained with a looping orbit. Elliptical orbits, too, had to be explained with much more complex motion on the part of the rest of the observable universe.
When G was first hauled before the church, in fact, he skated by saying that the heliocentric theory was simply a model he had constructed to make his calculations easier, as it could use simpler means to express the complex movements of the heavens.
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Mars=Mercury... I think.
> Movement through space-time is all relative, as Einstein pointed out.
Einstein also pointed out that the speed of light was an absolute. So that would seem to conflict just a tad with the notion of stars lightyears away revolving around the Earth every 24 hours. Try workign out the velocity as a multiple of C for a galaxy going in a complete circle with a radius of 225 million lightyears in 24 hours.
Heck, work it out as a function of Warp Speed.
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