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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.physics
Subject: Re: Bogus Physics
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 13:40:03 EST
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Summary: To net.physics, please clarify...

>> 1) According to Einstein, it's relative--there _is_no_such_thing_ as
>> absolute rest.  You _can_ say that the sun goes around the earth; the math
>> is just easier the other way.
>> Kenneth Arromdee
>
>Oh come on folks!!!  The sun (universe) does not twirl around the earth!!!
>Einstein never even implied such a thing.
>Motion is relative *only* when considering inertial reference frames,
>as determined by Lawrence transformations.
>Rotation is definitely not an inertial reference frame.
>It is not a matter of mathematical complexity,
>the earth really does rotate.
>Put simplistically (as we must when posting to this newsgroup),
>if the universe spun around the earth, it would fly apart,
>and even nearby galaxies would be traveling faster than light.
>Similarly, the earth revolves around the sun,
>and the solar system revolves within our galaxy.
>These are not arbitrary conventions, they are facts.
>The amount of bogus physics in this newsgroup is astonishing.
>			Karl Dahlke    

This originally started with a challenge to a creationist to provide examples
of his statement that there are empirical propositions more established than
evolution, and he responded by saying the earth goes around the sun.  Would
net.physics readers please tell me how accurate my response was, as far as
physics goes?  (I am not a physics major, and it is quite possible I was wrong).
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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