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To: GourmetDan

>Sorry, the reference frame rotates instead of the earth.

Sorry, a rotating reference frame is NOT an inertial reference frame. I take it you didn't bother reading my post, which is unsurprising as you didn't bother reading the sources you quoted either.

So does the Earth rotate along with your rotating reference frame? In other words, is the Earth fixed to your rotating reference frame? Or is it fixed to a non-rotating reference frame?

Careful how you answer. Think about the consequences to your argument. . .


347 posted on 04/07/2006 8:04:01 AM PDT by Celebur (And people wonder why scientists react negatively to the scientifically illiterate.)
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To: Celebur

I didn't say that a rotating reference frame was intertial. All I said was that the reference frame rotates instead of the earth. It does this to maintain it's position with the stars that are fixed wrt that rotating reference frame.

The earth is not fixed to either a rotating reference frame nor is it fixed to a non-rotating reference frame.

The reference frame is rotating relative to a fixed-earth. As such, the calculation are the same as for an assumed rotating earth within a fixed reference frame.

Orion's contention was that there was some essential difference due to the heliocentric model and there is not. The only contention is whether the reference frame rotates or the earth.

There is no way to know.


348 posted on 04/07/2006 9:00:51 AM PDT by GourmetDan
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