[Ken H]

There is simply no way to tell if the earth is fixed and the universe if rotating or if the universe is fixed and the earth is rotating. There is no difference.

If the universe is rotating about a fixed earth, wouldn't it have to be moving awfully fast?

If you just take the nearesr star, which is about 4.3 light years away, it would have to travel over 72 trillion miles* in 24 hours.

*I used 6 trillion for a light year, and multiplied pi times the diameter (2 x 4.3 light years)

[TomB]

If the universe is rotating about a fixed earth, wouldn't it have to be moving awfully fast?

Not to mention the silliness in believing that such a massive object as the sun would rotate about a minute object such as earth.

Every orbital system we observe has less massive object orbiting more massive ones. Why would this one be different?

[GourmetDan]

Wouldn't what have to be moving awfully fast?

The star is not moving that fast, so no problem w/ 'c' there and 'c' does not apply to the universe itself. Only to objects in the universe.

Is that what you mean?