Sorry Alan and Mike and the list. I made a mistook. A serious mistook. Well I think I am mistaken. I can easily get disoriented when moving around, mentally moving that is. You will see in my analogous creation theme that I gave the aliens ship a secret rotational twist to make it think it was in the same frame as the big rock. That wouuldn't work if the alien or me were observant. I would detect the twist very quickly. I remembered Arthur C Clarkes big wheel and the artificial gravity. Wouldn't all the little things inside end up on the inside of the outer hull? The centrifugal force would be certainly detectable. Gyros and all that. So Alien would fly up and correcting for rotation see a stationary stone along side the rotating one. No problem. Oh yes there is. As there is really a gravitational attraction or push from the aether?, then in my imaginary created empty space my two stones, my two beautiful stones will come together with a big bang. But notwithstanding all that, hey I was God , I could have put a hex on gravity and centrifugal force, and thus my original proof that I created a stone in a stationary place having no movement up or down or around. still stands. Its just that I will have to remove Alien out of it.... er hmmm ... ah heck just what is centrifugal force? Maybe I will propose that it is stored momentum in the aether. Now that sounds like a good theory. We have a rotating mass at constant velocity which in circular motion is acceleration going nowhere, tied to the centre of gravity which has no weight or mass. And the heliocentrists reckon the universe cannot rotate around the little weightless massless centre of our earth. What if the universe was just a big flywheel? Just as the little flywheel is a little universe , mostly empty space with all them little proton suns and planetary electrons, all rotating around that nothing space in the centre. Is that what the geo people mean by the universal mass? I have no problem with that. Its a matter of relativity isn't it. Regarding time, Asimov said that civilisations could rise and fall on the spark falling from the anvil of a blacksmith. He further said our entire universe could very well be such a spark. I read somewhere that a flywheel of nominal mass will fall in a vacuum due to gravity at a slower acceleration than the same mass falls if it were not rotating. Like gravity is reduced? The leaning top does not fall over while it is spinning, does it. I went into a university site once to seek an explanation of the gyro effect seen in the precession of a simple toy the spinning top. Do you know, there was two or more pages of mathmatical formulas and equations. I reckoned they didn't know. Have fun, and dream tonight Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip" <joyphil@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 4:06 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Fruitless arguments We don't all think the earth isn't the centre of the universe just because Copernicus said so. That's the point. It's not authority, it's all repeatable experiments and confirmable logic. Science. Not faith. Regards, Mike. Quite true. But all these confirming experiments are done within the paramaters of the first concept. Quite naturally they will fit and be repeatable. Prior to copernicus all the calculations also confirmed the earlier view and were repeatable. (locally)