[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

mrjesse, perhaps you can devise an experiment to test LeGrandean mechanics:

"In a two body system there is no difference between one body spinning in relation to the other body or one body orbiting a stationary body." [LeGrande]

You see, LeGrandean mechanics makes no distinction between non-inertial reference frames and inertial reference frames. I bet LeGrandean mechanics will also soon teach us that there is no such thing as acceleration either.

[mrjesse]

mrjesse, perhaps you can devise an experiment to test LeGrandean mechanics:

"In a two body system there is no difference between one body spinning in relation to the other body or one body orbiting a stationary body." [LeGrande]

Well yes I know that if the sun were orbiting my merry go around at the rate of 180 degrees per 8.5 minutes, the sun would always appear to be the opposite direction that it really was. So it stands to reason that I can make the sun do amazing things if I turn my merry go around at 17 minutes per turn.

Imagine the excitement this will cause at NASA headquarters when the sun goes streaking across the sky unexpectedly! [grin]

-Jesse