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To: LeGrande; mrjesse
“Are you seriously trying to defend mrjesse's belief that stellar aberration applies to the Sun? LOL” [excerpt]
From wikipoodle:
At the instant of any observation of an object, the apparent position of the object is displaced from its true position by an amount which depends upon the transverse component of the velocity of the observer, with respect to the vector of the incoming beam of light (i.e., the line actually taken by the light on its path to the observer).
Stellar Aberration applies to a moving observer.

If the Earth has transverse velocity relative to the Sun, then Stellar Aberration applies.


“Telling someone to get an education and try and falsify what doesn't make sense to them, is not an appeal to authority.” [excerpt]
Uh, your the one who needs to get an education.


“Only if you think that disbelief is equivalent to belief.” [excerpt]
Atheism is not a disbelief, it is a belief in the non-existence of something.

You cannot scientifically prove the non-existence of something.

Atheism is therefor, nothing more than a religious Faith.

1,920 posted on 10/03/2008 12:54:38 PM PDT by Fichori (ironic: adj. 1 Characterized by or constituting irony. 2 Obamy getting beat up by a girl.)
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To: Fichori
Stellar Aberration applies to a moving observer.

If the Earth has transverse velocity relative to the Sun, then Stellar Aberration applies.

Let me finish your quote for you since you don't seem to understand what stellar aberration is either.

"At the instant of any observation of an object, the apparent position of the object is displaced from its true position by an amount which depends upon the transverse component of the velocity of the observer, with respect to the vector of the incoming beam of light (i.e., the line actually taken by the light on its path to the observer). In the case of an observer on Earth, the direction of its velocity varies during the year as Earth revolves around the Sun (or strictly speaking, the barycenter of the solar system), and this in turn causes the apparent position of the object to vary. This particular effect is known as annual aberration or stellar aberration"

Obviously you don't understand what stellar aberration is either. It is based on the motion of the Earth around the Sun and how that motion effects observations of other objects not observations of the Sun. Stellar aberration does not apply to the Sun or the Earth.

Atheism is not a disbelief, it is a belief in the non-existence of something.

I don't believe in leprechauns or your God.

You cannot scientifically prove the non-existence of something.

That is correct, I can falsify it however. If you say your God is in my coffee cup, I can look in my coffee cup and see whether that is true or not.

Atheism is therefor, nothing more than a religious Faith.

That is simply meaningless circular logic.

1,921 posted on 10/03/2008 1:23:15 PM PDT by LeGrande
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