[GourmetDan]

"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:

[ColdWater]

Hmmm. Your 'Thirring effect is only about 2E-6 radians per year but you think it causes hurricanes to rotate. Are you really serious? "In discussing this prediction for the theory, Einstein remarked that the magnitude of this effect (which amounts to about 2 x 10^-6 radians per year near the surface of the earth) "is so small that confirmation by laboratory experiments is not to be thought of."