I don't want to derail this thread, but I have to throw in that I'm extremely sympathetic with Flat Earth theory and have read a lot of evidence that seems to lean in that direction, and a lot of evidence that NASA has been lying to us, the locking down of the Antarctic, lack of any real pictures of the earth (and moon) from space when they have the technology (they use CGI by their own admission). I could go on for a long time about evidence that I've never seen explained by globe earth theorists. In that case, the issue with the entire Universe revolving around the earth once every 24 hours goes away. Nevertheless, that is not preposterous at all. Assuming a globe earth, imagine that an ant is on the surface of the earth. How fast is that ant going relative to it own unit of measure. It rotates around thousands of miles in one 24-hour period and doesn't feel it. Scientists claim that the galaxies and solar systems are moving through space at breakneck speed but don't feel the G-forces. So if we don't feel any movement of the earth when we're spinning at 1,000 MPH, and then flying through space at like 70,000 MPH ... with all that we can have butterflies fluttering around unmolested ... then why is it a problem for the entire universe to rotate around the earthy once every 24 hours?
Your not derailing the thread Ladislaus, it is part of the wider debate. The first thing one has to consider in this geocentric debate is that God created the universe to do what it does. Thus any argument from 'science' that says this cannot be that way because of speed or something else is not impossible to God. I wonder are there any atheists who are geocentrists? I bet not.
Now the flat-Earth theory depends on too many conspiracy theories. The main one of course is that there are no real photos of a curved Earth, or of a global Earth as seen from space. For 50 years, men in many different countries, not just NASA, have sent rockets up into the sky, placed things on the moon and Mars, put satellites up there so that we can send instant messages from all around the world to CIF in an instant, but there is a world-wide conspiracy not to let anyone see the Earth is flat. In other words, not one whistle-blower in the world ever told the truth and became famous for it. That is a little far-fetched.
Yes I know their flat Earth is so positioned so as to make it look like a globe that causes the moon to go from bright to not bright over a month or so in a global way, and eclipses of the sun and moon also look like the Earth is a globe. They have even come up with a reason why half on a flat Earth only see northern stars, while others only see a southern sky of stars. But all these things are better understood on a global Earth like every other body visible in the sky. I always saw Flat-earthers as undermining a geocentric one as revealed by God.
As for the effects of speed on the Earth, well there is one big one, the Coriolis effect.
In 1835 a French mathematician by the name of Gaspard de Coriolis (1792-1843) recognised and measured this inertial field that caused many different effects all around the Earth. Now called the ‘Coriolis Effect’ or the ‘Coriolis Force.’ it means that on the Earth’s surface, using the Equator as the fixed neutral point, bodies moving north in the northern hemisphere tend to veer to the right (east), such as the Atlantic gulf stream, while bodies moving south in the southern hemisphere tend to veer to their left (east). The extent of this deflection depends on the distance from the Equator where the effect is almost zero. Knowledge of the Coriolis Effect has now become crucial in the sciences of meteorology, ballistics, satellite dynamics, geology and oceanography.
They say this effect is caused by the Earth's rotation, but geocentrists say it is caused by the rotation of the universe around the Earth. Now this effect, credited to a 1,000 mph rotation, can cause the above, Why doesn't an orbiting Earth at 67,000mph cause a much greater effect? But consider this also. The Coriolas effect is EASTWARD, that is, WITH the turn of the Earth. Now something rotating should leave its effect behind it, not ahead of it yes? In geocentrism, the universe turns WESTWARDS that shouls leave an effect behind it as the Coriolis Effect shows.
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