Monday, November 26, 2007

Not Quite Right in the Head

This is a very interesting piece of work, which I read through this weekend, A Primer on Geocentrism.

It's pretty wacky, but also very interesting. It's self-contradictory in places, especially when the author tries to show that the universe rotates around the Earth, but doesn't violate the speed of light. In that particular section, he offers not one, but three different (and contradictory) reasons why the universe is okay (relativity doesn't apply to rotating bodies (!), the speed of light goes faster as you get further from the Earth (!!) and besides the firmament isn't rotating (except when it is)(!!!).

The guy knows some physics terms (I didn't remember the Sagnac effect, and I still don't see what it has to do with his point), and seems aware that modern physics exists, but doesn’t let that slow him down from believing science is on the verge of a new geocentric revolution.

Sad.

This is what happens when you let invisible, sky-dwelling all-fathers into your head. They die there and stink up your whole mind.

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