Not exactly true (although his post made me think of exactly the same history). Heliocentricity leads to easier cosmological math, but since any coordinate system in space is arbitrary anyway, you can't really say one is "correct" and one is not. It's not like there's a golden sphere at the origin and visible axes shooting off into space that defines the "real" coordinate system.
No, it’s true. Unless one is trying to once again say that the sun orbits the earth? Nothing arbitrary about the moon’s orbit of the earth. Some things are fixed in relation to one another.
Einstein says otherwise. All "inertial", that is, not accelerating with respect to each other, frames of reference are equivalent. Earth is orbiting Sol ... orbital motion is constant acceleration (the gravitational force causes the orbiter to move in a circle ... absent such it would continue in a straight line) ... therefore a Sol centered reference frame is not the same as an Earth centered reference frame.
“Not exactly true (although his post made me think of exactly the same history). Heliocentricity leads to easier cosmological math, but since any coordinate system in space is arbitrary anyway, you can’t really say one is “correct” and one is not. It’s not like there’s a golden sphere at the origin and visible axes shooting off into space that defines the “real” coordinate system. “
Soooo given that I accept your premise that the sun revolves around the earth I have a question - Does the sun the orbit Mercury? What about Mars, Saturn, Jupiter???
How does the sun manage to orbit all of the planets at the same time while maintaining the same relative distance, astronomically speaking, from each and every planet? The only way for that to happen would be for all of the planets to be in the same space or for the sun to take an erratic path between all of the planets.
Just not buying it...