[Fichori]

“Comparing either one to an object rotating in place relative to the other seems an apples-to-oranges arrangement.”

By reducing an equation to the bare minimum of parameters greatly simplifies it.

Here is where that highly simplified model came from:

post 1362

[Fichori] If the Sun and Earth were perfectly motionless in space, except the Earth was rotating 360° every 24 hours, would (at high noon, sans the atmosphere) the optical image of the Sun be lagged 2.1° behind its gravitational pull?

post 1415

[LeGrande] Yes, up to 2.1 degrees.

Its neither the geocentric model nor the heliocentric model.

Its the LeGrandeic model.

It isn't comparing apples and oranges, it is merely about getting to the source of the 2.1° (which is apparently a byproduct of thinking that there is no difference between rotating and being orbited)

[tacticalogic]

It isn't comparing apples and oranges, it is merely about getting to the source of the 2.1° (which is apparently a byproduct of thinking that there is no difference between rotating and being orbited)

It terms of the angular velocity between you and the reference point, there doesn't seem to be.