Philip, If you go dwon to your local day-care centre ( where toddlers get dropped off so mummie can go to work to help daddy pay 66% ALL-TOTAL taxation ) you will see a toy where you can slide a wooden sphere along a circular thin metal rod. So the sphere is fixed upon the circular rod and the same point always shows inward. "The sun's path, fixed within the rotating firmament... " NJ I still remember and have have memorized exactly 30 words from my grade 8 high school math class about the different kinds of movement. Let me think what were those words again?.... Ah yes they were: In Euclidean geometry, a translation is moving every point a constant distance in a specified direction. It is one of the rigid motions ( other rigid motions include rotation and reflection ). Bernie --- On Fri, 11/21/08, philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Moon Rotation To: "geocentrism list" <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 11:00 PM We have knocked this argument on the head by laboratory /kitchen experiment before. The moon rotates.. As regards the two systems , in geostatic , the moon would have to rotate 24 revs per day.. In the helio system it rotates once every "month".. The 5% poses no problem , not to me or any ordinary astronomer. check the archives.. Allen refuses to accept a simple geometric answer for which we have to thank Regner when he explained translation with and without rotation. If the moon did not rotate at all, ie it kept one face to a single star or any fixed point, . then as it orbited the earth we would have to see its whole surface in the course of one orbit. It would appear to us to be rotating.. this is another example of what you see is not what you got....and none of it effects the geo position Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bernie Brauer To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:28 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Moon Rotation Question: In Geocentrism/Geostatic, does the Moon rotate? Answer: "Putting a hundred things that factor in aside, the central fact which both geo and helio models must accommodate is that the same side of the moon ( plus c. 5% as I recall ) is all we ever see from the Earth. All kinds of phenomena could enter into producing that extra 5% ( Harvest and Hunter Moon variations; the 31,000 mile in and out spiral every two weeks; some kind of inclination constant; etc. ) so I don’t pretend to have that worked out. It just seems to me that the answer is basically “no” with some kind of a partial rotation incorporated in each revolution which would accommodate—or allow to be seen—the extra 5% movement without continuing to rotate. Anyway, the same face reality remains and is something that both models have to accommodate. The helio accommodation is forced to abandon all observational evidence and embrace three major assumptions in order to fabricate a mathematical model which must continually lay on a montage of assumptions for every claim it makes to achieve the stages to the Kabbalic Big Bang “creation scenario”. The first two assumptions are that the Earth rotates and that it orbits the sun ( which must stop its observed orbit around the Earth ). But these alone simply can not and do not work without the third assumption; namely, that the Moon’s direction must be reversed from what is observed. And, of course, its speed must be adjusted so that it will accommodate what is actually seen. I don’t think one person—even “educated” persons—in a thousand realizes that the Copernican Mathematical Model could not work unless the Moon’s direction is reversed so that it goes the opposite of what is seen. This is not science! Science ( scire ) means “to know”. If we don’t know what we see and what we see never changes ( east to west ) is the truth, then we can never know anything and “science” has no meaning. Contrariwise, if we say we know what we see and has never changed is the truth because a mathematical model can give us a way of denying what we see, then, clearly, we can never truly know anything but invented/created mathematical theory and no true “science” can exist. This is the Pharisee way with its Kabbalic “wisdom” which uses witchcraft to make lies into truths with its “relativity” and all the rest. God will not let His Word come back void, but it will accomplish what it says . . . namely, SUN, STAND THOU STILL, and all the rest . . . The Bible and Christ-killing Pharisee Religion’s Big Bang Evolutionary Paradigm is a supernaturally empowered clever counterfeit of the truth, and heliocentricity is both its keystone and its Achilles Heel. Marshall Hall Answer: Think about every rotation you can observe . . . it is nothing more than a single point that has a progressive radial orientation to a common point . . . now look on the Moon . . . take any fixed point on the Moon . . . the only progressive radial orientation made by any fixed point on the Moon is to a common point that lay outside the Moon . . . thus the Moon does not rotate it orbits . . . a rotation is a progressive radial orientaion to a common point that lay internal of the object in rotation . . . i.e. the center of a record, drill any hole you want to in it . . . all rotation will be around that point that lay inside the record itself . . . where in an orbit the only common point that any other point on the Moon can make a progressive radial orientation to is at the Earth not the Moon . . . orbit common point outside the body in question . . . rotation = common point internal to the body in question . . . the Moon orbits it most certainly does not rotate. Allen Daves