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To: GourmetDan
In relation to what?

Period.

"Geocentric" means the idea that the earth is fixed in it's place, perhaps by God, and does not move at all.

The rest of the universe moves around this stationary earth.

"Heliocentric" is the idea that due to the laws of gravity, the largest mass in a system like the solar system is the center of that system.

342 posted on 03/16/2007 12:52:12 PM PDT by Dominic Harr (Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
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To: Dominic Harr

Well, obviously the earth and the universe move in relation to each other, so when you say it does not move at all, that would depend on your philosophical choice of perspective and be indefensible scientifically.

Is that your goal?

I do agree that in order to be a heliocentrist, you have to ignore the rest of the universe while a geocentrist always takes the entire universe into consideration, if that's what you mean.

Period.


344 posted on 03/16/2007 1:17:55 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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To: Dominic Harr; GourmetDan

Please consider the following song lyrics from Monthy Python's The Meaning of Life...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

If the above be so (with the Heliocentric model) then wouldn't we all feel a bit dizzy?


350 posted on 03/16/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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