[ExI] geometry of solar system

[William Flynn Wallace]

Pity the poor layperson, who asks "Does the Earth really go around the Sun?"

Your answer  "Well, it depends on your point of reference."  He doesn't
want to hear that.  He wants a yes or no.  Just like the nature/nurture
posts of late, it's complicated, but requires us to simplify for the
nontech people.  'Well, that's probably the best way for you to think about
it."

Now he feels patronized and belittled.

bill w

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:46 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* [ExI] geometry of solar system
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> "Either the earth goes around the sun or it doesn't."
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> Is that true?  According to what I read, you can pick any point, even
> Pluto, and consider it to be the center, although that makes the geometric
> math a nightmare.  So we take the sun as the center just to make the math
> easier.  Right?  Question ditto for galaxy.
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> Sure can BillW.  Even making the math simpler is now mostly irrelevant:
> computers don’t care how complicated the code is.  They return the answers
> just the same.  Coders would rather have simpler code of course.  But there
> are plenty of good reasons to use your own reference frame as the center of
> the universe.
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