Posted on 03/07/2010 11:42:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
They all got it wrong.
Barack Obama is the center of the universe.
Just ask him.
Hail to the Queen!
Exactly.
Which is why the claim that the Earth is at the centre of the universe, is bull.
You’d have to do a whole circus of academic gymnastics, to account for all physical phenomena, to support that view.
Greek Pagans?
The Sect of the Golden Compass.
I’ve seen multiple references and articles over the past few years, regarding a cosmological model attributed to astrophysicist Dr. George Ellis, of a semi-geocentric universe containing a naked singularity as a recycling mechanism, a model that does not require mysterious “dark matter,” messierhunter. It would seem your objections are not entirely valid.
Latitude, Altitude, Attitude... it’s all the same.
Racist.
I bet a black mountain climber could beat a white mountain climber.
That sounds kinda dirty.
He was an Alexandrian Greek, and belonged to late antiquity. His work references observations made between 127 and 151 A.D. The Introduction to the Great Books edition of The Almagest notes:
The geocentric theory of Ptolemy was not the only theory known to the Greeks nor even at times the most accepted. The Pythagoreans, prior to Plato, had theories involving a motion of the earth, and we know that Aristarchus of Samos after Plato had a heliocentric theory which in all essentials was that of Copernicus.
Ptolemy's theory of the planetary motions was a great achievement, but his perfunctory reasoning justifying geocentrism and his insistence on the doctrine that the unchanging Heavens are utterly distinct from the changeable and corruptible sublunary sphere, to which the science of physics is confined, certainly give a premonition of scholasticism, and may even be the same thing; that is, founded on religious doctrine.
Certainly these doctrines are alien to the way of thinking that we see in Aristarchus, whose theorizing seems so modern in style and approach, even though we have only glimpses of it.
So, Greek pagans constituted an early church, some "politician" voted geocentrism into law to win election, and it was all an act on Ptolemy's part, to avoid sanction by these Greek pagans?
Do I have your intended meaning right, here?
It’s that Greek pagan influence, they just rolled that way, you know.
Ptolemy's theory of the planetary motions was a great achievement, but his perfunctory reasoning justifying geocentrism and his insistence on the doctrine that the unchanging Heavens are utterly distinct from the changeable and corruptible sublunary sphere, to which the science of physics is confined, certainly give a premonition of scholasticism, and may even be the same thing; that is, founded on religious doctrine.
Yeah, what Dr_Lew said.
You’re just being silly now. Can you successfully paraphrase what you’ve cited? I’m beginning to suspect that you can’t.
This book is by Einstein and Infeld, and as per Clark’s biography of Einstein, Infeld approached Einstein with the idea of collaborating on a popular work because he was in financial straits. Einstein was aware of this, and the implication seems to be that he agreed to it as a kindness to Infeld, who pretty much carried the load.
This is not to say that Einstein didn’t actually collaborate, and even if Infeld did the writing I’m sure he would have taken pains to reflect Einstein’s views, which were pretty well known to him. At the same time, one should be careful about attributing any particular implications to Einstein personally.
The cite I provided is taken from a question-and-answer format in the book itself, with Albert Einstein answering the questions posed by Infeld, dr_lew.
I provided a link to archive.org. The entire book is available there, for free download. Give it a look.
What I was saying was that it is our 'perception' through history books (altered to fit perception) that before the Sun centered astronomy, we only had Earth centered astronomy, and before that men lived in caves and were quite stupid.
Much of this has to do with the influence of religion.
None of it is true.
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