On Friday, May 4, 2012 9:37:53 AM UTC-6, T Pagano wrote:
> 1. Over the last two years I have challenged atheists (in particular)
> to prove that the Earth moves or rotates or that the neoTychoan Model
> has any fatal flaws. No proof has ever materialized.
From the vantage point of parsimony you have two choices
1) have the entire universe out as far as astronomers can see
be rotating in lock step around the axis of a celestial sphere,
requiring an unknown mechanism for holding all of the celestial objects
in exact lock step, with no differential motion. Recall also that the
length of day varies quite a bit during the course of a year, so not
only do all of the objects have to orbit the axis of the celestial
sphere, they have to all experience the same variations in rotation rate.
2) have the earth rotate.
Choice 2) is the obvious correct answer. It is up to those who favor
choice 1) to show why that is a preferable model of the universe.
Since Pagano presented no mathematics, he is just blowing smoke.
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> 2. Recently Broccoli (first) and then Harshman, Ernest Major, Isaak,
> and Rogers asserted that the Earth could not possibly be located at
> the Center of Mass in the neoTychoan Model because it would be
> gravitationally accelerated from that location by the Sun. I have
> shown at length that this position is a violation of Newton's Third
> and Second Laws.
Yes you really showed how full of it you were on that one. Remember that
in the physics of Newton, there is no gravitational force whatsoever inside
of a symmetric spherical shell. Since you were arguing from a Newtonian
model, there is no "force" to hold the Sun in orbit around the earth.
Note that you have two very different assumed forces in your model: The
gravitational force which acts as an inverse square law, and under which
it is obvious that the planets, including the earth orbit the barycenter
of the solar system. To try to save stationary earth model, you assert
(without calculation or evidence) that frame dragging of the universe is
somehow strong enough to make everything go around the earth daily, but
weak enough that coriolis-like force that is predicted to act radially
by Thirring's calculations is weak enough not to rip the earth apart.
At most, what you have is an equivalence of coordinate systems. Nothing more.
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> 3. Neither Dr Dworetsky nor Dr Carlip ever made this ridiculous claim
> and neither has any other secular scientist in history. Yet if their
> ridiculous claim were true it would have easily, decisively, and
> conclusively rendered GeoCentric models false.
You really are a total crank on this one. Of course the center of mass
moves when the objects move.
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> 4. Newton published his opus in July 1687 yet Newton didn't dispell
> the possibility of Ptolemy's Model or Tycho Brahe's Models both of
> which had the Earth at the Center.
Actually, ephemerides calculated using Newton's methods immidiately surpassed
the ephemerides produced using Ptolemaic methods. The reason Tycho Brahe
got in the star mapping business was because the ephemerides were so bad
that as a college student Brahe would make naked eye observations with
paper instruments of his own construction, and could easily measure the
errors in predicted positions of the planets.
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> 5. In 1887 why did Michelson-Morley waste time and resources to
> demonstrate that the Earth was moving through the Ether at approx 30
> km/sec around the Sun if it was impossible for the Earth to be located
> at the Center?
Huh? This is gobbletygook. Nobody believed in a stationary earth in the
1887. The prevailing notion of the time was that light was an elastic wave
traveling through a continuous medium. If that model were correct, then
the earth at some time in its orbit would be moving with respect to the
"ether".
Yes, the solar system is in motion. William Herschel is credited
with that discovery in 1783. He measured the proper motion of
a number of stars and showed that their proper motion vectors converged
on a point in space which he (correctly) interpreted as the direction
that the solar system is moving from.
Of course, spectrascopic measurments of the radial velocities of stars
since that time has refined this notion.
So, in your NeoTychoan model, you have to have stars approaching and
receding from your presumed stationary earth.
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> 6. In 1937 why did Hubble lament the red shift of the stars that
> could be interpreted as their revolving around a central Earth? And
> why did he resort to accepting Einstein's ad hoc solution of a non
> Euclidean geometry of curved space to avoid the possibility of a
> center to the universe?
Nothing ad hoc about Einstein's theory of general relativity (which
incidentally, you draw on with abandon to explain things like geosyncronous
satellites).
Hubble's law is based on a calibration of red shift with standard candle
methods, so the notion works. The red shift- distance relation holds up.
Nothing about the galaxies "revolving around the earth" though. That
is just your claptrap.
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> a. Hubble wrote, ". . .Such a condition would imply that
> we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to
> the ancient conception of a central Earth. . .This hypothesis cannot
> be disproved, but it is unwelcome and would only be accepted as a last
> resort in order to save the phenomenon. Therefore we disregard this
> possibility. . .the unwelcome position of a favored location must be
> avoided at all costs. ... . .such a favored position is intolerable.
> .. . .Therefore, in order to restore homogeneity, and to escape the
> horror of a unique position. ... . .must be compensated by spacial
> curvature. There seems to be no other escape." (See Hubble's, "The
> Observational Approach to Cosmology," Clarendon Press, 1937, pp
> 50,51,580)
Well, when Pagano quotes something it is best to go back to an original
source to see what it really said.
From
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept04/Hubble/Hubble3_2.html
" The assumption of uniformity has much to be said in its favour. If the distribution were not uniform, it would either increase with distance, or decrease. But we would not expect to find a distribution in which the density increases with distance, symmetrically in all directions. Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central earth. The hypothesis cannot be disproved but it is unwelcome and would be accepted only as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. Therefore, we disregard this possibility and consider the alternative, namely, a distribution which thins out with distance.
A thinning out would be readily explained in either of two ways. The first is space absorption. If the nebulae were seen through a tenuous haze, they would fade away faster than could be accounted for by distance and red-shifts alone, and the distribution, even if it were uniform, would appear to thin out. The second explanation is a super-system of nebulae, isolated in a larger world, with our own nebula somewhere near the centre. In this case the real distribution would thin out after all the proper corrections had been applied.
Both explanations seem plausible, but neither is permitted by the observations. The apparent departures from uniformity in the World Picture are fully compensated by the minimum possible corrections for redshifts on any interpretation. No margin is left for a thinning out. The true distribution must either be uniform or increase outward, leaving the observer in a unique position. But the unwelcome supposition of a favoured location must be avoided at all costs. Therefore, we accept the uniform distribution, and assume that space is sensibly transparent. Then the data from the surveys are simply and fully accounted for by the energy corrections alone - without the additional postulate of an expanding universe.
In this case all the empirical information we have concerning the observable region as a whole is internally consistent. The region appears to be thoroughly homogeneous - an insignificant sample of a universe which extends indefinitely. The conclusion would probably be accepted without hesitation if it were not for the fact that, at the moment, we do not know of any permissible interpretation of red-shifts other than actual motion, actual recession of the nebulae."
In short, Hubble made a reasonable call. It just happened that Einstein
had equations that predicted either an expansion or contraction of the
universe, so the observations were entirely consistent with this notion
of an expanding universe.
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> b. If Hubble, Einstein and their atheist contemporaries
> could have rendered a central Earth impossilble with Harhman, et al's
> ridiculous claim it would have avoided the necessity of introducing
> the ad hoc solution of non Euclidean, curved space. This ad hoc
> solution caused more problems than it solved.
> (1.) Hubble was forced to explain the red shift with
> an expansion of the "curved" space. And the expanding universe had
> some interesting problems of its own.
> (2.) It then became quickly apparent that the
> expansion could not be maintained given the known mass of the
> universe. This caused the introduction of the ad hoc solution of cold
> dark matter/energy which no one can find or explain. It also
> necessitated that this cold dark matter/energy to have "repulsive"
> properties.
Actually, cold dark matter is irrelevant in this discussion. Geocentricity
does not make dark matter go away. Geocentrists don't even seem to accept
that the universe is expanding, when the red shift law (calibrated by
standard candle methods) basically is undeniable.
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> c. Wouldn't Harshman, et al's solution been a whole lot
> simpler and parsimonious than the contortions that the Greats of
> Secular Science went to, to avoid a central Earth? Certainly but the
> Greats of Science knew that Harshman, et al's solution was
> simple-minded nonsense given Newton's Laws. The solution was never
> raised because it violates the Third and Second Laws.
Basically "centrality" is gone, never to come back in physics.
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>
> 7. Finally why doesn't Harshman, et al pen a paper offering their
> solution (which is contrary to Newton's Laws) to any peer reviewed
> paper. Such a claim does not appear anywhere so it would be unique.
>
> Harshman, et al, are finished, embarrassed, and defeated.
>
> What remains is to seen now is if Broccoli, Harshman, Rogers,
> Isaak, and Ernest Major have the intellectual honesty and integrity
> demainded in the fields of science to come clean.
One wonders when Pagano will see how utterly ridiculous these geocentricity
claims that he is making are?
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>
> Regards,
> T Pagano
-John