Re: Great Truth and their Contraries

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:24:42 -0600

From:           	CurtAdams@aol.com
Date sent:      	Sat, 27 Nov 1999 21:57:17 EST
Subject:        	Re: Great Truth and their Contraries
To:             	extropians@extropy.com
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> Sean Stickle wrote:
>
> > Read Mach, the explanation is quite clear. There are no preferred intertial
> > frames, therefore any point in space can be considered the center.
>
> Not with rotation. Rotating frames aren't inertial.
>

Btw, the earth does not rotate around the sun any more than the sun rotates around the earth; they rotate around a common point between them (if we bracket the gravitational effects of the other planets) - this point is much closer to the sun than it is to the earth due to the "massive" disparity in mass between them.