Re: [asa] geocentricity

That's an excellent question, randy, and my research has not focused on that
type of technical question (I've focused on biblical hermeneutical
questions), so I can't answer it. I would nevertheless be surprised if
someone like Bouw does not have an answer, whether or not it satisfies those
of us who accept the earth's motion.

Let me correct my own description of the Foucault pendulum. I should have
said, that the pendulum does knock down all the pins, except right at the
equator, but that it takes a lot longer than 24 hours to do so in the
temperate zone. So, it suggests casually that the earth's period of
rotation is (say) 36 hours, not 24.

>>> "Randy Isaac" <randyisaac@comcast.net> 7/5/2007 10:35 AM >>>
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 11:08:09 2007