that was very good... john On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Sorry to put you through all that work Paul, but I thought you was > talking from the helio perspective, as I was. Been there done all that. > > However Paul, > > after all this time I thought you would have gotten a bit familiar with > geocentrism. > > Perhaps a little explanation is in order with some analogy. The sound > barier. > > When a body is flying through the atmosphere at the speed of sound, we can > say it is moving at the speed of sound, however long before jet planes we > had turbines or at least flywheels whose peripheral speed was more than 1100 > ft per second, in other words more than the speed of sound. Yet we did not > consider it as really moving anywhere, through any sound medium, spinning as > it was in its own space.. > > In the geocentric system, you must look at the solar system first, *yet > excluding the world called earth*. In this system we have the planets > making their particular yearly trips around Sol. With respect to the sun, > all the speeds are heliocentrically the same as you expect them to be. No > argument here. > > Next I want you to consider this sun system and all the stars THE ENTIRE > COSMOS as being part of a "solid" object, like a flywheel that is more a > spherical shape, whose *centre *is the world called earth. Within this > "solid" sphere nothing can exceed the speed of light, and nothing does. This > "solidity" is the medium of light. One might say relativity works within > .this sphere. I call it the aether, for want of a better name, a rather > primitive term with so many misconceptions. 'space-time barrier' fits > nicely. After all what we see is a long long time ago. > > We now have this sphere doing a 24 hour rotation around the world. So, like > the solid flywheel doing a peripheral speed faster than sound, likewise we > have a sphere whose size indicates peripheral speeds that could be measured > as many times the speed of light.. YET THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS NOT BEING > EXCEEDED BECAUSE THE* MEDIUM* IN WHICH LIGHT TRAVELS IS WHAT IS MOVING. > > I know this is mind baffling, but not as much as Einsteins maths. I > struggled with it. > > Imagine it is a big spherical pond of water rotating once per 24 hours, the > increment of change outwards is not enough to be noticed by the fishes > swiming in it. (Much less even than the latitudinal change in the earths > rotational speed, which is so gradual as to not be noticed by > earthlings).Bernie will get quite irritated with this. . . Now fishes all > the way out to the periphery will not know or feel or sense any speed. The > fish at the centre theoretically if he was imbedded in this fluid wouldn't > know either because his "stationary" would have a slow rotation, with the > same angular speed. . That after all is what real relativity is all > about. > > But for.. and this is the big BUT. His God told this central fish > that the stone on which he lived was un moving, rock solid , aand if that is > true, wonder of wonders, those fishes we can see way out there are > travelling faster than many times the speed of light. Not really any problem > in that at all.. Its just a matter of perspective... so long as the > flywheel holds together and dosn't fly apart. ...maybe it has,,, hmmmm a > new theory for an expanding universe... > > Not signing this.. > > > > *From:* Paul Deema <paul_deema@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > *To:* geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:23 PM > *Subject:* [geocentrism] Re: Bible Geocentrism - The Earth is NOT Moving!! > > Bernie B, Philip M > > I don't say that Uranus and Neptune are travelling faster than light -- > Geocentrism says it. > > The speed of light was first determined to be 180,000 mps (before the speed > of sound was determined) by the apparent leading and lagging of the orbiting > of Jupiter by its major satellites due to the extra distance the light had > to travel across Earth's orbit as Jupiter moved from inferior conjunction to > superior conjunction. Subsequent experiments largely supported this > measurement but refined the estimate to 186,000 mps. These latter > experiments were done in Earth based laboratories and did not involve what > you might call assumptions thus the new value can be used to verify that the > understood distance across Earth's orbit was -- approximately -- correct. > > With the speed of light now known, the distance to the four gas giants can > be determined from the round trip time taken for radio signals to and from > the Voyager space probes as they passed these planets and the diameter of > Earth's orbit is confirmed in the act. The distances understood to be known > prior to Voyager were not modified post Voyager. Thus the orbit radii of > Jupiter = 489,900,000 miles, Saturn = 887,100,000 miles, Uranus = > 1,784,000,000 miles and Neptune = 2,795,500,000 miles are known. > > The circumference of the orbit of Saturn is - > > 2 * pi * r = 6.28 * 887,100,000 = 5,570,988,000 miles > > and travelled in 86,400 s (24 h) gives a speed of 64,479 mps. > > The circumference of the orbit of Uranus is - > > 2 * pi * r = 6.28 * 1,784,000,000 = 11,203,520,000 miles > > and travelled in 86,400 s (24 h) gives a speed of 129,670 mps. > > The circumference of the orbit of Neptune is - > > 2 * pi * r = 6.28 * 2,795,500,000 = 17,555,740,000 miles > > and travelled in 86,400 s (24 h) gives a speed of 203,191 mps. > > On these numbers, it is only Neptune which travels faster than light. Guess > that'll teach me not to quote without verifying! To show my integrity, I've > left my error intact. > > Concerning where men have travelled. In 1968, the crew of Apollo VIII > circled the Moon -- which is MUCH more distant than 300 miles -- and on > Christmas Day of that year, read from Genesis while so orbiting. While in > orbit they also took photographs including photographs of the rear side of > the Moon. These photographs were of a quality superior to those taken by > Soviet Luna 3 in 1959 -- > http://images.google.com/images?q=soviet+luna+3+photo&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7SUNA&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title > but > comparison will show sufficient points of equality to verify that they are > of the same landscape. Though I cannot show you here, I have in my > possession a Super-8 movie film of the high lights of Apollo VIII -- > purchased in 1969 -- which probably shows scenes from the rear side of the > Moon (it's a long time since I watched it). It's in a rather inaccessible > box unfortunately but in any event, I don't own a projector. I've been > meaning to get it transferred to video tape or DVD for some time -- maybe > soon. Subsequent film has only improved the resolution and thus confirmed > the obvious -- men HAVE orbited the Moon. > > Concerning comet trails. Yes -- I know about directions and why. I meant > only to call to mind the pictorial impression. > > Paul D > > > ================================================================= > Not a lot of true science here either Paul;. > > PS Why don't Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- two travelling at > greater than the speed of light -- have their atmospheres blown away like a > comet tail, if space is NOT a vacuum? > 1st, what planets are travelling faster than light???? > > 2nd, a comets tail is not really a tail, like as in behind the movement. > The comets > "tail "can be in any direction, even in the direction of the motion... It > certainly is not blown away by movement through the vacuum. > > Philip. > ================================================================== > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bernie Brauer <bbrauer777@xxxxxxxxx> > To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, 6 October, 2008 3:26:11 PM > Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Bible Geocentrism - The Earth is NOT Moving!! > > Paul, > > If you believe people in white costumes that tell you, one or more of, > Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune travel at the speed > of light or faster then you should look for > a new hypothesis of Cosmology, that is not heliocentrism. > > *"No man has ever ascended higher than 300 miles, if that high, above the > Earth's surface. No man has ever orbited, landed on, or walked upon the > moon." * > > Bernie > > ================================================================== > > > ------------------------------ > Make the switch to the world's best email. 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