On 09 Aug, Philip <joyphil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >From the geocentrist, I need an explanation. > My physics book also used aberration to establish the speed of light. > For their formular they used an established figure 30,557 meters per > second for the caculated orbital speed of the earth around the sun. > Taking the triangle I used before, with the angle of aberation of 20.45" > and making the base line equal to the velocity of the earth, 30,557 > meters per second ,and the vertical line equal to the speed of light, > using -- Tan 20.45 = 30557over V of light squared. .or .0001003 > Working back from the Tan tables this gave a fairly accurate 3.047 X > 10/8th meters per second. > If the earth is not moving, how do we account for the figures working > out? > Is it because they made the assumption that the base line measurement > was due to earth movement rather than star movement. > Yet for this to be so, it must involve a rather complex star/cosmos > movement forward and backward annually in addition to the daily > revolution, and the annual wobbling plate for the seasons. > Seems like a lot of complexity, just to con someone into thinking that > we rotated and revolved around the sun. 'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge! How much more elder art thou than thy looks! Alan