Geocentrism

1. Earth does not orbit/revolve around the sun.Around a century ago, Michelson and Morley tried to experimentally confirm that Earth orbits the sun at 66,000 mph. They did this by shooting a light beam in the direction of Earth's orbit, and shooting a light beam from North to South. They then measured the differences in speed of the two light beams.Their hypothesis was this. If Earth is moving at 66,000 mph, then the speed of light traveling with Earth's movement would be measured as slower than the speed of light traveling from pole to pole, and the difference in speed between the two light beams would confirm Earth's 66,000 mph orbit.The results did not confirm Earth's 66,000 mph orbit. They only confirmed a movement less than 1/20th of 66,000 mph, but it wasn't certain whether this movement belonged to Earth moving in the ether or the ether moving against Earth.By the way, the ether is the substance through which light travels. Just as water waves travel through water and sound waves travel through air, light waves travel through the ether. The ether is everywhere; it is practically omnipresent. It even exists in the tiny spaces between the atoms of your body.If Earth had really been moving at 66,000 mph, which it must do if it is to orbit the sun within a year, the experiment would have detected such movement. Since it didn't detect movement even 1/20th of 66,000 mph, Earth's orbit around the sun is falsified.2. Earth does not spin/rotate.Also about a century ago, Airy performed an experiment to confirm Earth's movement. He placed a regular telescope and a water-filled telescope side by side, and pointed them at the same star.His hypothesis was this. Since light travels slower in water than in air, the water-filled telescope would have to be bent at a different angle than the other telescope to see the same star, if indeed Earth were rotating, or moving at all.To understand this reasoning, a thought experiment is needed. Let's say you have two people walking side by side in a thunderstorm, each person holding an empty cup. Pretend that one of the cups has a mysterious quality that makes raindrops fall slower than normal once they enter it.In this analogy, the two cups represent the two telescopes, and the mysterious cup represents the water-filled telescope. The rainfall represents starlight.Although the rain is falling in a straight line, it is hitting the cups at an angle since they are moving. This means that for both cups to catch the rain so that it hits the bottom, and not the sides, they wil have to be tiled slightly. Similarly, for a pair of telescopes situated on a moving Earth, they will have to be tilted slightly to 'catch' the starlight properly.In the case of the magical cup that slows down rainfall, it will have be tilted even more than the other to catch the rainfall straight on the bottom of the cup. The reason is best illustrated with a simple GIF animation:http://i.imgur.com...Note how the cup that has a substance in it that slows rainfall is catching the rain at a very bad angle compared to the empty cup. For it to catch rainfall as well as the other cup, it would have to be tilted at a different angle.In the analogy, rainfall making it's way to the bottom of the cup represents starlight making it's way down the telescope to the eyepeice. If Earth were moving, and thus the two telescopes moving, then the water-filled telescope would have to be tilted differently than the empty telescope to 'catch' the light of the same star; in other words, to see the same star, both telescopes would have to be tilted differently, if Earth is moving. If Earth is not moving, however, and thus the telescopes aren't moving, both telescopes will catch the same starlight equally well at the same angle, and the water-filled telescope will not have to be adjusted.Airy found that, indeed, the water-filled telescope did not need to be adjusted in the least. This falsified the idea that Earth moves at all, proving it neither orbits the sun nor spins on an axis.3. The universe does spin/rotate around Earth. According to NewScientist, "we are[...] positioned to look along the universe's unique spin axis"(1) The only way for us to be able to look along the axis is for the axis to pass right through Earth. This means the universe is spinning/rotating around Earth. The universe rotates around the immobile Earth. (1) http://www.newscientist.com... Public access copy: http://stirling-westrup-tt.blogspot.com...