"you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself."
Yes, it's ridiculous.
But I wonder what things would look like if it were true.
According to Einstein the Earth does not rotate around the Sun, they are actually moving in straight lines. Their gravity causes space to curve giving the appearance of oval orbits.
>>>"... you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours."<<<
I read this somewhere else a long time ago. I believe it was in one of the Apocrypha.
>>>I wonder what things would look like if it were true.<<<
It is theoretically possible. But the sun would be required to circle the earth at (PI*D = 292 million miles/day * 1 day/24 hours =) 12.17 million miles per hour. And the sun is extremely close to us, cosmologically speaking. The nearest star, which is about 4 light years away (or about 23.5 trillion miles if my math is correct), would be circling at speeds of about 3 trillion miles per hour. Think of the speed required for the most distant objects that are billions of light years away.
I have to go with the "earth revolving around the sun" theory.