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Day 5: (Part 2) Broccoli fails to prove the Earth Moves. Reasons that a Central Earth is Logically and Physically Possible
” a. Hubble saw the red shift of the stars that his telescopes could
reach and concluded that this clearly indicated motion of those stars
around a central Earth. He was horrified by the metaphysical
implications. Hubble wrote,
“. . .Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position
in the Universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a
central Earth. . .This hypothesis CANNOT be disproved, but it is
unwelcome and would be accepted only as a last resort in order to save
the phenomenon. Therefore we disregard this possibility. . . the
unwelcome position of a favored location must be avoided at all costs.
… .such a favored position is intolerable. . .Therefore in order to
restore homogeneity, and to escape the horror of a unique position. .
…must be compensated by spacial curvature. There seems to be no
other escape.” (“The Observational Approach to Cosmology,” 1937,
Oxford, Clarendon Press, p50, 51, 58)
b. For the uninformed “curved space” is defined such that there is NO
CENTER. This eliminated by fiat (and not scientific theory) what the
red shift clearly implied.
Link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/talk.origins/CFq3tmzzoMQ