Neville forgive me if I am wrong, but do I detect some irritation caused by the prospect that your major claim that the absence of annual star trails debunks HC might be unsustainable or even challenged? This would be unbecoming of the gentleman I expect you to be. You have asked for better from Regner. I respond to your objections below, including those which are rather nitpicky and having nothing to do with the mechanics involved. Just as well I said the post MIGHT be the last.. LOL. This might be my last attempt at explaining what I see Neville. There has to be severe limitations to communication having a personal high aptitude for mechanics (?), yet a lack of concise and correct acceptable to all terminology in conveying physical actions. The words, technical and otherwise, are being used here, are they not? I am complaining of my inability to concisely communicate in the written word what it is that I have seen mechanically working so that all may see the same. (?), I am unsure what this was for. I was referring to the fact that any vocational aptitude tests I have ever taken, both at school and occasionally by my employers over the years have always reported upon an "exceptionally higher than average" result for mechanical aptitude like as in cogs gears wheels and pulleys etc., and an overall IQ better than that expected of University graduates. This latter I find insulting as I have no evidence to support any such intelligence amongst most graduates, even the engineers. Humility demands I do not publish a copy of these IQ reports, and in any case senility may have dated them. Even the multitude of diagrams require an expertise in interpreting same, well shown in the confusion abounding here. Who can interpret x-rays for example? Well, most people. Ultrasound is a little more difficult, if that's what you mean. I'm surprised to hear you say that. In the Australian medical system, individual MD's get their assessments of x-rays and ultrasounds and blood counts done by specialists at the clinics/laboratories where these are taken. The diagnosis is referred back with the pictures and blood results. MDs whilst perhaps ok with fractures and the like, cannot be trusted with interpretations of soft tissue problems. They do not have the experience equivalent to those who do nothing else every day. You try it! Diagrams and graphics require an element of both skill and training. I don't think so. "A picture paints a thousand words." A picture paints a thousand words, and tells different stories to different folks. But In my 5 year apprenticeship three years of it included Technical Trade drawing and graphic art including schematic diagrams related to electrical and electronic trades, as a full subject, and I can tell you it was not the easiest subject for me. In graphics not everyone can picture an isometric view from looking at 2D elevations. I could project them in a drawing to produce an image, but that is not the real dimensional object as visualised in the brain, is it? I originally asked everybody to stop the world spinning by a counter reverse sidereal rotation of the camera. When I suggested that I was sure the orbital rotation should cause a spin which would result in an annual trail being observed, without arguing over which axis. However when Regner showed that a rotating translational movement could occur without spin, and I subsequently proved this to be a physical mechanical possibility, (and I challenge anyone to prove such is impossible,) I realised, that as HC claims this is the case in the HC model, then any static camera pointed at the northern sky during an orbit of the sun would observe no rotation induced stars. And you are wrong, because we are not considering the alignment of the World's alleged axis, but the undeniable motion of any spot on the World with respect the the centre of the annual orbit when sampled at 24 mean-solar-hour intervals. What ever it is you are considering Neville, this is not the object of my experiment here. I have called for the spot/location to be the pole. I am not asking for any sampling. And if my wording was difficult for you due to my limitations , let me say it a litle differently. I am using the HC system.. It is their system , and it works according to their rules.. I am complying with those rules in trying to demonstrate that it is possible to have rotary translation without spin.. They hang their case on that assertion. You seem to be denying this? All of the above was a preamble, a setting up, the rest is the real experiment. So I then modified my original suggestion. Assess the exact rotational period of the daily spin of the earth. Call it one Sidereal rev per day. Why not call it 1 sidereal day, which is its accepted name? (And has been since about the year dot.) Yes, if you are concerned with accurate terminology. But I was looking at this from a hypothetical situation. In any case are you not nitpicking here? whats in a name.. I am trying hard to indicate the exact revolution spin of an object.. To avoid any confusing distractions, mount your camera spot on the North celestial Pole looking up. Angle will not matter because the lenze can be wide angle. (Philip, you are in no position to criticize Allen about his spelling!) (Grinning with much mirth and enjoyment ) Please tell me why this comment was inserted here? Have I criticised Allens spelling somewhere? And what has spelling got to do with the experiment? AH! "lense" then. OK. I must have seen an American version somewhere. I mixed the American "lenz" and put in an "e " from the English "lense" Hardly worth apologising for, but if you insist. There is always one in the class who keeps interrupting with trivialities. I suggest the pole because Allen will argue about the translation of the equator, not that such a location would make any difference. What?!! OK so if I wanted to nitpick, the equator may put some stars below the horizon. That is certainly different. But another North star still in view will suffice for the experiment. But to avoid just such a problem I insist we have it axially aligned spot on the pole. Did I miss something else here. This camera will be rotating in the reverse direction to that of the earth one sidereal rev per day. In this setup you must agree that the stars will appear to remain stationary for 24 hours and no trails will appear on the plate. Angry student interjection:- Wowzers, that is some long-winded way to state the obvious. Now imagine if you will that this entire scenario world and all was INSTANTLY translated 2AU across space 180 degrees of orbit away in a flash with the exact same orientation. This does happen. Comedian in the class interjects:- Does it? Have you been watching Star Trek again? :-) Will you agree that the view of the stars, apart from some indiscernable parallax, will be unchanged. Agreed. In fact if you flashed around the entire orbit maintaining the same orientation, the view will be unchanged. Agreed. Well that is what HC claims happens during a year of translation. And this is why there is no star trails observed. Oh dear. Have you not just been talking about 'instantly' moving the World around its alleged orbit? What do you think happens with any off-axis point on the World in the actual HC model? Here, points on the World are actually moving, rather than being frozen in time as you suggest. Ah I can see your problem with my diction. The instant translation was put to demonstrate that translation can be made without spin. If it can be done in a second, then it can be done in any time, even a year, simply because the stars never move from their positions ever. Why do you insist on an off axis point of the world? If you accept and agreed that nothing changes when the pole is moved 2AU , how would moving to a different latitude make any difference? A camera on the pole will just spin on its axis. A camera on the lower latitude will rotate with the spin of the world , and also if fixed , make one spin on itself per revolution. This cannot be denied. By mechanically reverse rotating the camera this will neutralise the spin, and present stationary stars identically in either location, the pole or some other latitude. I do indeed suggest that if you applied this whole experiment to a camera on some northern latitude , and use any northern star for observation, the stars location would remain unchanged on the plate over the whole day, and that such location would remain unchanged during translation to any spot on the orbit, over a second or over a year. Philip Madsen. Back to GC. The world is not spinning . The stars rotate around the NCP. The world is not orbiting. The stars make no annual trails. IF you did translate the world by magic to a spot 2 AU away, you would see the exact same image of the stars rotating around the NCP. Not a smell of a difference would you see. You need to insert the phenomenal stellar distances into the GC model before you can say this (I, for one, do not accept such distances, but some geocentrists do), but your main confusion here lies in the fact that rotation about the ecliptic polar axis does not occur in geocentrism, because in this model the Sun orbits the World. Hence, geocentrists do not expect to see this secondary rotation effect because there is no secondary rotation in the model. The fact that no such rotation is observed (which I believe we are all agreed upon) does not make the two models equivalent, but rather points to the correctness of one model (GC) and the incorrectness of the other (HC). Neville. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.33/1132 - Release Date: 15/11/2007 9:34 AM