The recent Japanese earthquake changed the length of the day by about 1.6 microseconds. Unless someone can explain how an earthquake on Earth can affect the speed with which the Andromeda galaxy rotates about the Earth then we have to conclude that the Earth is rotating.
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It is most likely the other way around.
Reply to Discover Magazine’s Critique of Geocentrism
R. Sungenis: Mr. Plait doesn’t know his Relativity physics. An earthquake on earth would
not affect the entire universe, and one reason is due to the effect of the Schwarzchild radius
at Saturn’s orbit, that I noted above. Second, geocentrism holds that disturbances within
the universe are the cause of tremors on earth, not vice-versa. In fact, this principle is one
reason that Misner, Thorne and Wheeler, in their landmark 1973 book, Gravitation, can say,
“Mass there governs inertia here” (pp. 543, 546-47, 549). We can hold to such notions
since in geocentrism we don’t have the same problem with “action-at-a-distance” that
Newton had.
What the reader will find is that Special Relativity was invented by Einstein to escape the
direct evidence from the experiments performed from the early to late 1800s that were
showing the Earth was standing still in space. As physicist James Colemen puts it: “…The
easiest explanation was that the earth was fixed in the ether and that everything else in the
universe moved with respect to the earth and the ether….Such an idea was not considered
seriously, since it would mean in effect that our earth occupied the omnipotent position in
the universe, with all the other heavenly bodies paying homage by moving around it.”
(James A. Coleman, Relativity for the Layman, p. 37). Scientific historian Lincoln Barnett
says it best:
“The Michelson-Morley experiment confronted scientists with an embarrassing
alternative. On the one hand they could scrap the ether theory which had explained
so many things about electricity, magnetism, and light. Or if they insisted on
retaining the ether they had to abandon the still more venerable Copernican theory
that the earth is in motion. To many physicists it seemed almost easier to believe
that the earth stood still than that waves – light waves, electromagnetic waves –
could exist without a medium to sustain them. It was a serious dilemma and one
that split scientific thought for a quarter century. Many new hypotheses were
advanced and rejected. The experiment was tried again by Morley and by others,
with the same conclusion; the apparent velocity of the earth through the ether was
zero” (Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein, p. 44).
When the last of these experiments were done, Einstein’s biographer admitted: “The
problem which now faced science was considerable. For there seemed to be only three
alternatives. The first was that the Earth was standing still, which meant scuttling the whole
Copernican theory and was unthinkable” (Einstein: The Life and Times, pp. 109-110). In
other words, concluding that the Earth wasn’t moving was a viable solution to the
experimental evidence, but modern science’s devotion to Copernicus and Kepler was simply
not going allow that option to be entertained, much less supported. Instead, Einstein turned
physics on its head and reinvented a whole new physics just to escape a motionless earth.
Ironically, when Special Relativity failed due to its internal contradictions, Einstein had to
invent General Relativity to shore up the façade, and in the process he had to take back the
very two foundations he had discarded in Special Relativity, namely, (a) that nothing can
exceed the speed of light and (b) the existence of ether. In the end, Einstein’s theories were
a mass of contradictions which are covered over by obtuse mathematical equations. You can
read all about it in Galileo Was Wrong.
Third, as regards Mr. Plait’s assertion “Heck, without relativity your GPS wouldn’t work,”
exactly the opposite is true. The GPS system is pre-wired with a correction to accommodate
Relativity theory. This pre-wiring must be built in to each GPS satellite to compensate for
what is known as the “Sagnac effect.” In 1913, Georges Sagnac did an experiment that
falsified the Relativity theory of Einstein (and perhaps this is why Einstein never refers to
the Sagnac experiment in any of his papers). Sagnac showed that there was, indeed,
absolute motion (whereas Einstein said all motion was relative). Turns out that Sagnac was
right, since no GPS will work without the Sagnac correction programmed into the GPS
computers. But all this is kept very quiet. Apparently, even Mr. Plait doesn’t know it. I would
suggest he read the literature of the GPS engineers. We have it documented in Galileo Was
Wrong: The Church Was Right.
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