Re: [asa] geocentricity

Many thanks, Ted. Could you please be more specific on the following
sentences? How do the sophisticated geocentrists explain the latitude
dependence of the coriolis force?

Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; "Randy Isaac" <randyisaac@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [asa] geocentricity

....> Foucaut's demonstration is impressive, and probably convincing to most
of
> those sophisticated enough to understand the difficult physics behind it.
> (The modern geocentrists are very sophisticated, and they do not find it
> convincing.) As for the famous pendulum, it knocks down a full circle of
> pins only at the poles, and at the equator it doesn't topple any pins at
> all, but stays put. This is not a simple phenomenon. Someone living at
> the
> equator might justifiably claim that the pendulum proves geocentrism.
>
> ....

Maybe. But the key is latitude dependence

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Received on Thu Jul 5 10:36:09 2007