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 Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Sean Stickle wrote:
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.
>
> > 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.
>