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Are You Too Dumb to Understand Evolution?
CreationEvolutionHeadlines ^ | September 10, 2008

Posted on 09/11/2008 9:55:10 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

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To: GourmetDan
Back to your coordinate system. You amuse me to no end.
2,061 posted on 10/16/2008 6:23:23 PM PDT by allmendream (White Dog Democrat: A Democrat who will not vote for 0bama because he's black.)
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To: GourmetDan
“the center of gravity of the earth-sun system. Include the mass of the rest of the planets and the center changes. Include the mass of the rest of the universe and the center changes again.”

And the mass of the universe shifts around the motionless earth every 365 days?

Even if it did, the force needed to move the Sun around the Earth (gravity) would pull the Earth millions of times harder.

A coordinate system doesn't explain what is pulling what.

I guess some people are too dumb to understand Gravity.

2,062 posted on 10/16/2008 6:49:44 PM PDT by allmendream (White Dog Democrat: A Democrat who will not vote for 0bama because he's black.)
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To: allmendream
"Back to your coordinate system. You amuse me to no end."

"...Thus we may return to Ptolemy's point of view of a 'motionless earth'...One has to show that the transformed metric can be regarded as produced according to Einstein's field equations, by distant rotating masses. This has been done by Thirring. He calculated a field due to a rotating, hollow, thick-walled sphere and proved that inside the cavity it behaved as though there were centrifugal and other inertial forces usually attributed to absolute space. Thus from Einstein's point of view, Ptolemy and Corpenicus are equally right."

Born, Max. "Einstein's Theory of Relativity",Dover Publications,1962, pgs 344 & 345:

2,063 posted on 10/17/2008 5:32:56 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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" And the mass of the universe shifts around the motionless earth every 365 days? Even if it did, the force needed to move the Sun around the Earth (gravity) would pull the Earth millions of times harder. A coordinate system doesn't explain what is pulling what. I guess some people are too dumb to understand Gravity."

“The relation of the two pictures [geocentricity and heliocentricity] is reduced to a mere coordinate transformation and it is the main tenet of the Einstein theory that any two ways of looking at the world which are related to each other by a coordinate transformation are entirely equivalent from a physical point of view.... Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’ and the Ptolemaic theory ‘wrong’ in any meaningful physical sense.”

Hoyle, Fred. Nicolaus Copernicus. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1973.

2,064 posted on 10/17/2008 5:38:41 AM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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