Allen, I think what you are missing from my general arguement, is that yes, there are two separate axis of rotation, that, if treated equally, would each produce a different star trail for any particular star. But they are not treated equally with the pictures that have been taken, therefore we cannot say they have failed to record the annual star trail. First we must determine what it would look like under the unequal circumstances they were recorded under. I do not think you addressed my Logic challange in paragraph 2 below. Please look at it one more time, because if anybody can cut through some faulty logic, it's you. The first section you responded to is a statement of my logical premise and I completely agree with what you said in responce, it just doesn't have anything to do with the premise. The second section you responded to, I spell out the problem, but you do not actually address it, you state your view of why the helicopter scenario supports your view, which I may or may not agree with. In the third section, I present the two mutually exclusive ideas, one of which must be wrong, but your responce is a re-iteration of your proof. In this logic challenge I am not challenging your proof's details, I am taking the 2 direct conclusions of your proof (an annual circle must be created) (the nightly circle is created nightly and never moves reguardless of the baseline of the earth or the earths orbit) and the only conclusion you can draw from these two "facts"...... the motion about two axis is impossible(because the yearly must be traced out by the nightly, yet it cannot even be done theoretically)... and asking if this motion is observed in any of the other planets. If it is, then I have shown your proof to be flawed without talking about the details or reasoning behind your proof.. Now my drawings are a different matter, there I am challenging the mechanics behind the Proof. If I have made an error them, please point it out to me. That's what I'm attempting to do for you (everbody) by drawing them. I think I really understand your points and the proof, but I think you are missing what I am trying to point out about it. Please don't repeat why your proof is true, I understand it well enough to probably convince most anybody (open-minded that is) that geo-centrism was true based on your proof. But at this point I would consider myself a liar to do so, because I am seeing things that show why it is not a proof. And no-one has yet to really crush what I'm trying to point out, only re-statement of the proof that I was a 100% believer in till I started trying to draw my own proof for it. JA.... Allen Daves <allendaves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Me in blue with attachments..... hope this helps... j a <ja_777_aj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dr. Jones & Allen, I appreciate your efforts, and I do wish to be back on board, however, the more I look at it the further I am getting from accepting the Star trails proof. It seems to me that the proof, if correct, would not only demolish HC, but would also demolish the possibility of that type of motion, IE... No planet could rotate on an axis that is different from it's orbital axis. I think you should look at the diagram ..One is a model of the, earth/ sun, solar system shows both rotations about the two axis.......there is the suns axis that the earth orbits and the earths axis that the earth rotates on ....Two axis of rotation, they face two different directions......I completely agree! If the nightly circle does not move through the sky during the year, how can it trace out a larger circle? But the proof of the Nightly circle alone (anybodys proof) shows that the nightly circle will always be in the exact same place,Right as long as you take a photo graph of a helicoter blade it will always be in rotaion..it does not mater if you take 5 photos of it in 5 sec or 365 days it will still be in the same place doing the same rotaion. this is the same whting with the nightl star trails..you will allways see them annualy or nightly cause it is a photo grapgh of the same thing taken at differnt times thats all....it will always be in the same place doing the same thing..rotating...... so the motion must not be possible. But since other planets move with that motion (or am I wrong), it must be possible and therfore something is wrong with the proof. Break that logic Allen! ;-) The nigtly star trails will all ways be visable year around and every night it is the exact same photo graph of the exact same thing.....However...it is the stars distance from the/ any axis of rotation that determines the size of the startrail..this is true of the nightly as well. polaris is close to the axis of nightly rotaion and thus wil have a small circle where other stars that are further from the nightl axis will have larger star trails....Now..there is another axis of rotaion that takes place over a year ( not just a helicopter blade (stars) rotation but now the whole helicopter starts to move in circles [about the sun]) since polaris is further from that axis or rotaion polaris will produce a larger star trail...it must becuse it is the distance of a star from the axis that determins the size of star trails even in the nightly ...the reason polaris is now further from the other axis of rotaion is becuse of the angle of the axis not the stright line( base line) distance)..a axis sitting on a differnt angle cannot have all the same stars as another axis that is facing a differnt direction...it is the stars distance from the axis that determines the star trails size, if you have two differnt axis facing in different directions then the stars cannot be the same distance from both axis at the same time. thus, since HC has two axis of rotation in differnt directions and the stars cannot all be the same distance away from any axis of rotataion all at the same time each star has two diferent paths of two differnt sizes becuse each star is closer to one axis and further from the other..... Now, the above was just a thought that occured to me while I was getting the new drawings ready that you asked for. Hopefully these are easier to look at and, since there are only 3, less confusing and time consuming. The first is about the nighty star trail and the camera, the second and third are about the annual star trail and the camera and why the annual does not work just like the nightly. JA.... j a <ja_777_aj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dr. Jones, My replies in red, I do not understand your drawings. You have not changed the rotation axis from one scenario to the other, so the box is just as far away from the axis in both cases. Correct, but does not matter. What I changed was the way the camera moves around the axis, to demontrate the difference between a camera recording nightly trails and a camera recording annual trails. In diagrams 1, 2 and 3, your camera should not be diverging onto the axis, but be parallel with it. As Allen has said, it does not matter what angle the camera is pointed at, as long as you leave it still, it will record a star trail. The difference between different camera angles will determine where the axis is in the picture. Just like you have in 4, 5 and 6, but here you have not changed the axis! If you change the axis so as to point towards the box and make the rotor blades orthogonal to that axis, then what is the difference between the mechanism of 1, 2 and 3, from 4, 5 and 6? I believe I would still record the same event, just the center of rotation would appear in a different place on the film. The difference between the two (1,2,3 & 4,5,6)(I wish I had thought to name these better) is the difference between the stationary camera rotating with the axis which will record a star trail and the not stationary camera rotating against the axis which will not record a star trail. Perhaps you could redo the diagrams and see. I'll see what I can do, to make it clearer. Allen, Allow me to demonstrate. Actually, your mention of the helicopter is what got my confused questioning to gel into something I could better understand, so I have used the helicopter as my device. I found this much easier to visualize and draw the motions. The Helicopters body will represent whatever axis we are considering. The box on the ground beside the helicopter is any star you want to consider a star trail for. The rotor is either the baseline of earths radius or its orbit depending on whether you are talking about the nightly or annual trail. The Camera on the end of the rotor the camera sitting on a tripod anywhere on the earth. Drawings 1, 2, 3 are of the setup of my system to simulate the nightly star circle. The only difference between 1,2&3 is that I am increasing the length of the rotor axis, so that you can see where the circle produced is heading as the distance begins to negate the baseline (rotor length). Drawing 7 shows the positions of the camera as it is swung around the axis. Drawing 9 shows the results (the trail formed by taking a timelapse photo through one revolution in each of the three drawings). The circle is progressively moving to center on the axis of rotation. Exactly what we see in the sky and what your model predicts. Drawings 4, 5, 6 are of the setup of my system to simulate the annual star circle. The only difference between 4,5&6 is that I am increasing the length of the rotor axis, so that you can see where the circle produced is heading as the distance becomes more important than the baseline (rotor length). Drawing 7 shows the positions of the camera as it is swung around the axis. Drawing 8 shows the results (the trail formed by taking a timelapse photo through one revolution in each of the three drawings). Both circles (the axis circle and the box circle) are decreasing in size and will diapear into a dot with enough distance. Exactly what we see in the sky, but not what you are predicting. So what is different in my model to yours? If your camera takes pictures 24 hours apart, you are not taking into consideration that the camera has not rotated with the axis of rotation you are trying to record, and as my model shows, that is all the difference needed to make the annual trails disapear. This is not a proof of HC, only a disproof of the disproof, which are not the same. JA... --------------------------------- Free 3D Marine Aquarium Screensaver Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at www.inbox.com/marineaquarium __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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