Well since motion is relative, i would say the sun moves around the earth and so does every thing else in space, taking earth as a fixed point of reference. (gotcha there didn't i?) lol
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2007-03-05 14:01:00 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If the Earth was moving at a constant speed in a straight line, you might have a point. It would be a really small point, but at least it would be one. However, since the Earth has forces acting on it, you can detect that acceleration.
But even if you were able to make that point with a non-accelerating Earth, you would just be making the point that all points in the universe are equal. That means that nothing is the center.
2007-03-05 14:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take a bunch of gyroscopes and get them going in a big sphere....
Then you place yourself on Earth, in a solar system, on the edge of this sphere....
ANd you back up away from that sphere enough so that you can view it objectively....
Let's say that the gyroscopes are for all intents and purposes - are perpetually spinning...
All these gyroscopes are orbiting around the center of the sphere...
Some of these gyroscopes circle aroung larger gyroscopes, much like a solar system....
so you have orbiting systems orbiting around larger systems, orbiting around even tighter grouped systems with a clearly definied center...
You are on the edge, so to your right are orbiting systems and then, after that, infinity.
To your left and above and below you there are no orbiting systems - just infinity (to include places God Himself has never been!)...
relatively speaking, you cannot be the center of the universe, if you see that the universe is governed by an observable natural law.
Making the earth a fixed point from which everything acts, is not conceivable in a universe with observable natural law (gravity, equilibrium, motion, centrifugal force) being an obvious dynamic.
2007-03-05 22:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by The Burninator 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wait a sec ... you think atheists are the only ones who accept conventional science? How disturbing.
Of course, any reference point can be taken as fixed. However, there is no physical way to explain how the planets and the Sun would rotate around the Earth - the only explanation that makes sense is the one with the Sun in the center.
2007-03-05 22:05:43 · answer #3 · answered by eri 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are right into saying everything is relative.
For example if you consider Earth and the Sun alone, you can say the Sun revolve around Earth.
However, if you consider multiple objects, like other planets, it would be Earth revolving around the Sun.
But then, the Sun could be revolving around something in the Universe as the Sun, in personal view, is not a fixed object.
2007-03-05 22:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only relative if you on the object. If you take yourself out of earths orbit and you see the earth is moving around the sun as you stay at a fixed point.
2007-03-05 22:20:20 · answer #5 · answered by Magus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Astrology uses that same point of reference, so I guess you believe in Astrology too? The Sun is at the center of our solar system, not the Earth. The primitive idea you pontificate was given up on more than a thousand years ago. It was a matter of man's on self importance and his inability to admit that he is an insignificant species located on an insignificant planet located in an insignificant solar system located in an insignificant Galaxy located somewhere in the far corner of the universe.
2007-03-05 22:12:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess because the universe is infinite, you could declare the Earth as the center, just like you could Mars, or anything in the Andromedsa. But I'm not a learned man, so don't take my word until I know better.
2007-03-05 22:11:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy crap. You lose. Sorry. By your logic, anything in the universe could be the center of the universe.
Tell the truth, the center of the universe is unknown, but the center of the solar system is definitely the Sun (hence.. solar system).
And atheists aren't the only people who know stuff about science. This is very common knowledge.
2007-03-05 22:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by juhsayngul 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Does the Bible say the earth is the center of the universe?
I don't think so.
I am the center of the universe; my universe, anyway.
Did you see the eclipse of the moon last night?
2007-03-05 22:05:09 · answer #9 · answered by supertop 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no most researchers believe mars orbited the sun before the earth did , and the earth orbiting the sun happend only 19 million years ago
2007-03-05 22:08:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋