----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary L. Shelton" <GaryLShelton@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [geocentrism] Last call > > > > Gary, > > > > Since the GC forum is shutting down and you are the unofficial chief > > inquisitor, > > (Wow, a title? Don't know if I deserve that honor...I used to watch Columbo > all the time. Perhaps pestering is a penchant of mine.) > > I have wrapped up my remaining comments about several postings > > into one response. > > Thanks. You sound just like the BA-er I was always hoping to run into over > there but never did. > > > > > > The "paradoxes" in relativity are not really paradoxes > > > > Agreed. A paradox is an apparent contradiction; Einstein's relativity is a > > true contradiction. > > Absolutely the best line I've heard in awhile.... > Gotta like it, yes. > > > There is no symmetry breaking - this argument was abandoned long ago. > > Let two space travelers depart in opposite directions from earth with > > identical histories of motion for speed, acceleration and deceleration. > > Their trips will be symmetric in Minkowski space, since their world lines > > will be mirror images of each other within the light cone that has Earth > as > > the origin, at t =0. > > Yet the contradiction remains, with perfect trip symmetry....... > > A returns older than B and A returns younger than B > > Thanks very much for this example, Robert. > > > I'm abashed that some GC believers are non-Machian. > > Robert, my problem is I am so uneducated. I don't even know what > non-Machian means. I have grown somewhat in knowledge though while on this > board and also the BA. > > > How do you explain Gen 1:14-19 and the Foucault pendulum, the [alleged] > > equatorial bulge, the reduction in g acceleration at the equator, etc. ? > And > > all the other rotational motion 'disproofs' that the HC/AC folks cite? > > > Robert, I am earnestly looking forward to an answer on the solar eclipse > issue, studying the geocentric satellite issue, and figuring out what this > darn Coriolis force is. One poster on BA told me the g view needed an extra > rule to explain the Coriolis force, while the h view needed nothing as it > was a natural consequence of a rotating body. > > I have been in contact with Richard Elmendorf about the claims for the > Foucault Pendulum made by BA posters. He sent me a letter which I received > this evening. Mr. Elemendorf believes it is possible Noah's ark was made > out of concrete and makes an interesting case for that, but he also > thoroughly refutes the BA on the Foucault Pendulum, as I expected. Mr. > Elmendorf doesn't have a computer so one just has to write him. He is very > good about writing back. He types his letters on an old-school typewriter. > > > Pax Christi, > > > > > > Robert > > > > PS: Do you know of any other GC fora? > > No, but several of us may link together that way for awhile. My email is > GaryLShelton@xxxxxxxxxxx Contact me because I'd like to stay in touch. > Marshall Hall's website is interesting, as is Dr. Bouw's, but they are the > only other places I know to go. > > In geostasis, > > Gary Shelton >