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To: GourmetDan
Nope. That's what you don't understand about Einstein, Hoyle, Born and Ellis' comments about the physical equivalence of geocentrism and geokineticism under GR.

But with your geocentrism you have to invent fictional forces!

183 posted on 09/28/2009 6:59:32 PM PDT by ColdWater
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To: ColdWater
"But with your geocentrism you have to invent fictional forces!"

"...Thus we may return to Ptolemy's point of view of a 'motionless earth'...One has to show that the transformed metric can be regarded as produced according to Einstein's field equations, by distant rotating masses. This has been done by Thirring. He calculated a field due to a rotating, hollow, thick-walled sphere and proved that inside the cavity it behaved as though there were centrifugal and other inertial forces usually attributed to absolute space. Thus from Einstein's point of view, Ptolemy and Copernicus are equally right."

Born, Max. "Einstein's Theory of Relativity",Dover Publications,1962, pgs 344 & 345:

188 posted on 09/29/2009 6:27:35 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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