Re: The Earth, relative to space itself, is stationary!



On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:41:01 -0700, dlham@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Aug 2, 3:18 pm, Randy Poe <poespam-t...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 2, 3:08 pm, dl...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Abstract - A body does not travel through space. Relative to space
itself a body is completely motionless.

So "relative to space itself" the sun, the Milky Way galaxy and the
rest of the universe are moving around the earth?

- Randy

No - nothing moves, relative to space, including the sun, Milky Way
and everything else - even photons do not move, relative to space!
(they do move away from their emitting body at the speed of light.)

Don H.

That is like saying that nothing moves relative to itself.

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