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To: Physicist
"There is no such thing as absolute motion. If we don't accelerate the sun, then I am at liberty to choose a coordinate system in which the sun is at rest."

No, you are not at liberty to change reality.

True, you can create a fictitional *model* in which the Sun and Earth do not "move", just as I could create a fictitious model for two cars that are both traveling together at 70 miles per hour, but it would be erroneous to say that simply because my *model* of those two cars had unchanging reference points that the cars weren't physically moving.

177 posted on 06/26/2003 10:09:40 AM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
How do you know the cars are moving?
178 posted on 06/26/2003 10:15:02 AM PDT by Physicist
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