Allen D Excellent response -- I can deal with every statement and know with considerable confidence that I understand what you are saying. I'll choose this colour. (Well I like it -- it's pretty!) Actually, I don't know what colour you see. It's repeatable here on Yahoo but if I compose off line with Wordpad, it's closer to red. Paul D ----- Original Message ---- From: Allen Daves <allendaves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, 9 November, 2007 3:20:14 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: magnitude of scale. Paul, OK, I will keep this general for you now ..The Mechanics discused here are quite simple. They are accurately reflected in the diagrams i gave you that are themselves pretty self explanatory...but lets start back at square one so to speak.............. Yes, lets keep it general for now. comments to you in blue ....................................... Now -- My understaning of your explination is that they are somehow the same or are viewed the same..? I'm not too sure exactly what you mean here so I'll try to explain and hope that you grasp my point. If you followed my short exchange with JA on how I visualised the process which led me to accept his thinking as illustrated in his "Drawing1.bmp", you will have seen the two drawings I sent him in my two posts Re: Is geocentrism supported by facts (Supplementary) From Paul Deema Tue Nov 6 18:23:19 2007 and (same thread) Wed Nov 7 11:12:46 2007 which pretty much explain the mechanics of how I visualised these actions. Ok i can live with drawing "A".... For clarity sake -- we are talking about my SevenViews.png? I am proceeding on that assumption. which shows basically what my "9" shows..........that you said confused you....? Yes -- but let's not be distracted. Keep moving ahead while progress is in the offing. The first thing to do in solving any problem is to reduce it to its essential parts, if possible simplifying in the process. If the problem involves two (or more) components -- treat each component separately. In this exercise, I look at the daily (this means happens once per 24 h) you call it nightly, phenomenon and ask "What do we need to do in order to record this event?" Well we all know the answer to that one -- nail a camera to the Earth, point it at the centre of rotation -- It does not have to be aimed at the center of roation and i think this seems to be a key point for you, but it matters not if the camera is facing in a differnt angle then the roation. The reason this is so long coming, is that I have reconsidered this matter and you are correct. And so long as the NCP is somewhere into the frame then circles will form around it regardless of whether the stars or the Earth rotate. (Drawing AxisOfRotate.png attached). I may have to retract certain parts of SevenViews.png and the description. Later. Onward. Once you see this and the fact that you incorrectly model the motions, you should then realise how quickly your arguments fall appart. Earth or stars, it matters not -- chock the shutter open, wait an hour or three, remove the chock, print the picture -- Voila! Star trails. It gets more difficult to visualise the other part. No it is not. It is the exact same action, with the exact same stars, only a larger motion ..What is difficult to visualise is the fact that we don't see it, when we see the other for the same reasons, and yet you insist that it exist.......I do not concede this point yet as there is a fundamental difference. I realised my error concerning the necessity of changing my position above when I realised that in my visualisation, I had simply rotated the camera whereas what is happening is that the camera complete with its offset is being rotated -- that is -- the camera is being rotated but so is the offset. The pic attached may help. However, in the case of rotation about the NEP (or SCP), the camera as I have placed it need have no offset and so long as it rotates about the NEP rather than the NCP, the centre of rotation is in the frame -- just as for the daily example -- and circles around this pole -- the NEP -- will be evident. We can't see the ecliptic plane, or the axis at the centre, or its inclination to the Earth's axis but we opine that they exist, not physically but as intellectual entities. in the exact same way that the NCP exist ..none of this would realy have come into question prior to photographic plates...I think you are probably correct...So we then devise a substitute for the ecliptic disk, nail the camera to it, point it straight up, chock the shutter open for a month or three, pull the chock, print the picture and look. You say there will be no trails about the axis, I say there will. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I'll call a halt here Allen -- it's 06h00 and I really should sleep. Please, a short note if you like -- to accept (or deny) tonight's efforts -- but nothing new. Hint -- you still haven't answered those two questions! ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wrong!...you will most certainly see nightly trails, I have said this over and over.....? The debate then becomes an exploration of the actions and the mechanics involved. I've kept this deliberately general. The object is to agree on the principles involved, the names of the parts etc. Are you still with me? Please try to limit discussion to just these few points. Look at the diagram again. You model things either incompletely or incorrectly. If you are going to model the system you need and must model all components of the model not just pick and choose..look again at the diagram i gave you ..that model is the exact mechanics of the HC/AC earth sun system even according to MS. That model will produce and demonstrate both motions on one camera..but the reality will only ever produce the nightly ones..... that is the rub.. Paul D National Bingo Night. Play along for the chance to win $10,000 every week. Download your gamecard now at Yahoo!7 TV. National Bingo Night. Play along for the chance to win $10,000 every week. Download your gamecard now at Yahoo!7 TV. http://au.blogs.yahoo.com/national-bingo-night/