Re: Copernicus' grave found
- From: "oriel36" <geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 5 Nov 2005 04:27:45 -0800
The article begins with the usual myth about the challenge.
The Copernican insight which infers heliocentricity offered no
challenges but rather a way of resolving apparent retrograde motions
against the stellar background.In a sentence,he dropped the the
reference betwen the motion of planets and the stellar background and
replaced it with the annual orbital motion of the Earth.
Presently,as Mars is going into apparent retrograde,it is an excellent
time to rediscover what Copernicus actually did .The geocentric
plotting of the motions of Mars looks like this (the date attached
refers to where Mars is located against the stellar background.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/allabout/nightsky/images/2005/whereLosAngeles.jpg
The actual motion looks something like this simultated motion of Saturn
and Jupiter going into apparent retrograde -
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0112/JuSa2000_tezel.gif
The faster Earth is now overtaking the slower moving Mars in that
position where both obits are closest just as vehicles on a traffic
roundabout sharing the same axis and generate the same effect.Nobody in
a car moving faster would imagine that a slower car is moving backwards
and no person would imagine that the apparent backward motion is
resolved by being at the center of the traffic roundabout.Unfortunately
this is what Newton believed and thus destroyed the whole point of
Copernican/Keplerian heliocentricity in accounting for retrograde
motion by introducing an uneccessary and inappropriate framehopping
observer on the Sun to account for retrogrades -
"For to the earth they appear sometimes direct, sometimes stationary,
nay, and sometimes retrograde. But from the sun they are always seen
direct..."
http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/phaenomena.htm
So,pretension being what it is and with little common sense and no
compulsion to alter positions back to a correct re-alignment of the
original Copernican principles for heliocentricity through the
resolution of apparent retrogrades,humanity is served up a concocted
diet of myth and pretension with no particular destination other than
empirical mediocrity.
As a Christian ,I enjoy the Copernican insights too much to feel
embittered but cannot bear the pretension that conceals it under an
awful 'scientific method' agenda.Can't imagine why anyone else would
feel it neccessary to destroy the Copernican insight insofar as it is
extremely easy to comprehend in its original format as especially now
that the motions of the Earth and Mars are moving in a way that
affirmed why they share a common heliocentric axis.
Perhaps the words of Copernicus addressed to Ptolemy's disciples
adequately express the sentiments that can now be addressed to
empiricists or the Newtonian quasi-geocentric disciples -
" . although they have extracted from them the apparent motions, with
numerical agreement, nevertheless . . . . They are just like someone
including in a picture hands, feet, head, and other limbs from
different places, well painted indeed, but not modeled from the same
body, and not in the least matching each other, so that a monster would
be produced from them rather than a man. Thus in the process of their
demonstrations, which they call their system, they are found either to
have missed out something essential, or to have brought in something
inappropriate and wholly irrelevant, which would not have happened to
them if they had followed proper principles. For if the hypotheses
which they assumed had not been fallacies, everything which follows
from them could be independently verified." De revolutionibus, 1543
.
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