Jack said, The only way you guys can make this works for helio is to invent a gyroscopic precession that exactly coincides with the annual orbit of the Earth. But such a precession would put the south pole and north pole out of phase. See stevens cones picture, A precession to correct the North would only increase the circle on the south. thats the first conclusion I would guess at... but then I'm just your ordinary old electrician. Precession is another example of a difficulty.. It is caused by gravity on a flywheel exerting a downward force. Sounds a bit like the impossible scenario that talks of the earth tilting over because of too much ice on the north pole... LOL. Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Lewis To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:25 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Steven's points Dear Paul, Do you not think that this software is a 'showstopper'? The only way you guys can make this works for helio is to invent a gyroscopic precession that exactly coincides with the annual orbit of the Earth. Why on Earth (excuse pun) would you want to do that??? Reasons please for why you would want to do that - please nothing else at this stage. Regards Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Steven Jones To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:33 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Steven's points Me in blue: Paul Deema wrote: Jack L Comments interspersed below in [colour]. Paul D ----- Original Message ---- From: Jack Lewis <jack.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 25 October, 2007 11:29:21 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: (no subject) Dear Paul, If the earth points to Polaris then its annual traced out volume must be a cone with a very tiny angle subtended from Polaris. [This is an approximation only. In point of fact, Polaris is not directly in line with the Earth's axis, but at this time, describes a circle of about 1 1/2 deg centred on the actual Celestial North Pole (the extension of the Earth's axis). There are other motions which I do not have at my finger tips but in time it is likely that Regner T will cover this matter.] I've no idea where you got your 'cylinder' idea from. Is it your own or did you read it somewhere? [I didn't get it from anywhere -- it simply exists. Stick a skewer in an apple and maintaining its orientation, walk around the circumference of the Earth in a plane orthogonal to the skewer. In so doing, the extended skewer will define a cylinder of diameter ~12700km. If you instead walk around the Earth's orbit, the cylinder will be ~2 AU diameter.] This cylinder is irrelevant, a cone is much more accurate to describe the Earth's wobble and what we see: Attached is a file from "Starry Night Enthusiast", one of the leading commerical planetarium software packages on the market. It depicts looking at Polaris from our location here in Scotland and spans many nights in sidereal time. Notice any movement? Best Wishes, Steven. You mentioned parallax. Positive Stella parallax is one of the proofs offered by helios for their model. Their problem with that is there are nearly as many 'negative' measurements as positive. This would mean that the so called stationary stars [That's nearly all of them. The few that aren't are referred to as those possessing 'proper motion'.] , that are used to measure parallax. [The parallax of close stars is measured against distant stars, all of which are considered 'stationary'. ] cannot be stationary when compared with the background stars. So if you shift the goalposts and move the stars further away then you won't get any parallax at all! [Most of this sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. I think perhaps you don't actually understand what constitutes parallax.] No moving earth. Voila! [Clearly you have not grasped what I have described as you have not addressed the central issue.] This idea of using stellar parallax and using only the positive measurements and rejecting the negative measurements (very bad science indeed) stems from a prior assumption that the earth moves. Circular reasoning. [I don't have a handle on this approximately equal number of positive and negative parallaxes so I can't add too much here except to note that one explanation (upon which I would not place much reliance) could be that the reference star(s) are simply not sufficiently distant. However, as you've quoted it, one assumes that you understand it better than do I. Perhaps you could enlighten us as to whether the measured parallax data correlate well with the distances determined by the spectral type/apparent luminosity relationships?] Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Deema To: Geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:51 AM Subject: (no subject) re:Steven's points. From Steven Jones Thu Oct 25 05:56:41 2007 Quoting Philip M quoting Steven J ... 4. No observed yearly motion of stars around ecliptic N/S-poles ... Steven J ... It's true, no observed motion to match this criteria is observed ... I don't think you responded to my challenge on this matter in my post - Supplementary to "...supported by facts?" From Paul Deema Thu Oct 18 19:59:07 2007 (In part). Let me explain about the Heliocentric position. One. The Earth rotates on an axis once per sidereal day with its North Pole pointing to Polaris (give or take a degree) and its South Pole pointing to Sigma Octantus (give or take a degree) the North and South Celestial Pole stars respectively. Two. The Earth revolves around the Sun at a distance of one AU (give or take a million or two miles). As a consequence, the volume defined by the Earth's axis on this annual journey is a cylinder -- not a cone. Because of the ratio of one AU to the distance to the stars, the apparent angular change to these pole stars is trivial and certainly less than one mas. This in fact is the phenomenon of parallax. Three. The best way to envisage rotation about the Ecliptic Poles is to replace the Earth with a long flat narrow object oriented in the plane of the Ecliptic, pivotted at the Sun and with an observation point at the end at one AU distance. (This gets rid of the necessity of mentally struggling with the Earth's axial inclination to the plane of the Ecliptic which seems to be such a problem in the minds of Geocentrists, but if necessary, a mechanism to actually resolve this difficulty can be explained). If we mount a camera at this observation point and pointing up, it will be pointing at the (for convention) North Ecliptic Pole. Now if we start this construct rotating at the same rate as the Earth revolves and we open the shutter for a short period once per mean solar day (equates to midnight on the Earth) for 365 exposures of the single frame, then at the end of one year, we will have a photograph of many stars in the form of concentric circles each composed of 365 dots and centred on the North Ecliptic Pole. Voila! Please -- demonstrate the weakness in my argument. Paul D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.10/1091 - Release Date: 24/10/2007 2:31 PM