Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!larry From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.misc Subject: Re: Earth Centered Universe Message-ID: <500@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 08:39:32 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.500 Posted: Fri Jul 15 08:39:32 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 17:39:02 EDT References: <5146@cca.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 26 From: charlie@cca.UUCP (Charlie Kaufman) I find it interesting to watch the "science" contingent make fun of the "religion" contingent based on the biblical statement of an earth centered universe when "everyone knows" the earth spins, it orbits the sun, which orbits the galaxy... What's amusing is that scientific doctrine has changed and no one seems to have noticed. According to relativity theory, which is not wholly accepted, but is the current most widely recognized model of physics, there is no prefered frame of reference. This means that a stationary earth (the universe spins around it) is as valid a model as any other. I don't believe this is correct. What physics says is that any INERTIAL frame is equally valid. The earth is not an INERTIAL frame of reference because you are constantly being accelerated by the earths spin in a direction relative the the frame of reference. Can anybody confirm this? -- Larry Kolodney #13 (I try harder) (USENET) decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry allegra!linus!genrad!grkermit!larry harpo!eagle!mit-vax!grkermit!larry (ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai