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>>>>> "Gene" == Gene Preston <gene.preston@access.texas.gov> writes:
In article <3s6f2t$9ed@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> gene.preston@access.texas.gov (Gene Preston) writes:


    >> The idea I have mentioned here, that relatively speaking, the
    >> earth may well be stationary and the universe rotating around
    >> it is valid and
    Gene> there
    >> is no way we can tell what is happening from our point of view.
    Gene> Everything
    >> can be interpreted in either way...
    >> 

    Gene> This is garbage and violates about every physical law I can
    Gene> think of.  What century are you from?

    Gene> ...gene preston

I disagree.  It is entirely straightforward to take a theory like
general relativity and *express* it entirely in terms of a stationary
Earth at the center of a revolving universe.  In fact one does not
need to modify the theory at all.  A major part of GR is basically a recipe
for expressing the laws of physics as deduced in one frame in another
frame.  In particular, we can write the laws of physics as they would
appear in the coordinate system mentioned above.

The *reason* modern physicists do not do this is that the resulting
equations are inelegant (read "horrendous").   Since an extremely
elegant coordinate-free description is available, Occam's razor leads
us to the conventional representation.

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