Dear Ronald, Thank you for your kind and supportive words. I seek only God's glory, which I maintain is obscured by this heliocentric ball of knotted twine that we are all taught from an early age. I was hence disappointed that the eclipse shadow direction did not bring this system down, but these are early days, after four hundred years of ever-deeper obfuscation. It isn't going to implode without a fight. In response to your question of whether, "this change in ideas [will] affect the contents of the DVD," my reply is that the eclipse shadow paper will be removed from future copies of the model that go out, but that this will be the only alteration at present. I remain firmly convinced that a geostatic cosmos is not dynamically equivalent to a heliocentric one and, therefore, I support the absolute nature of space and time, as advocated by Newton, rather than the relative nature believed since Einstein. In respect of this, the answer to Jack's first question below is that Einstein based Special Relativity (SR) on the constant velocity of light (in vacuo) and the principle of relativity. For his General Relativity (GR), Einstein threw out the requirement for a constant velocity of light. Although this discrepancy was clear to Einstein, he did not address it, or even appear to be in the least bit bothered by it. Indeed, after ten years of mathematical tensor analysis, to arrive at GR, Einstein then tossed in the "Cosmological Constant," in order to make his work "fit" the ruling paradigm. Such reasoning and attitude is commonplace, but Einstein, in particular, does seem to have sown the seeds of enormous confusion. The ridiculous concept of "space-time," for instance, was dreamt up by a mathematician called Minkowski and siezed upon by Einstein as being "brilliant." Experiments such as Michelson-Morley, and many others, demonstrate that the World does not move, but were "saved" from this obvious conclusion by the work of Einstein. As for experiments that "prove" SR, they do no such thing, but are based upon circular reasoning in the extreme. Nevertheless, geocentrists who advocate an annual rotation of the starry heavens about the World, can save their position, too, by recourse to GR. So, I suppose the score is still level. Neville. Jack Lewis <jandj.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Griffin" To: Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 8:22 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Challenge > > Also, the stars would be travelling faster than light, which is > impossible according to Einstein's theory of relativity. Question 1 What was Einstein's basis for formulating his theory? > I suppose you will say that you don't accept Newton's laws, or the > theory of relativity, (which have been supported by all the experiments so > far carried out). > Question 2 What are these experiments - are they to do with particle physics? Jack "There is this great difference between the works of men and the works of God, that the same minute and searching investigation, which displays the defects and imperfections of the one, brings out also the beauties of the other." - Alexander Hislop, "The Two Babylons." Website www.midclyth.supanet.com --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!