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Author Topic:   Scientific illiterate: the sun revolves around the earth!
slevesque
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Message 12 of 17 (578668)
09-02-2010 8:53 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by hotjer
09-01-2010 9:33 PM


Well technically, the sun around the earth, the earth around the sun, it has all become relative, you know since Einstein

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slevesque
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Message 15 of 17 (578700)
09-02-2010 11:00 AM
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09-02-2010 9:45 AM


It's all a matter of reference frames. Center your reference frame on the earth, and voil!, the sun is revolving around the earth.
Of course, using such a reference frame isn't the most useful. It's much easier to model it with a reference frame at their center of mass. (which is inside the sun but not at it's center obviously)

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