jacmac wrote:Don,t we need the rotating earth for day/night cycle ?
Since I read Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision a few years ago I have questioned whether or not Earth is rotating. Velikovsky showed through global myths that there was in fact a day that lasted much longer than 24 hours, called Joshua’s Long Day from the book of Joshua in the Bible. Joshua said “Sun, stand thou still”. He could easily have said “Earth, still thy rotation”. In other words, the sun, and probably the universe, daily orbits a stationary Earth.
A sun centered universe proposed by Copernicus was originally rejected by consensus science because it was presented as a theory without any scientific evidence. To my knowledge, that lack of evidence still exists today.
The present consensus is that Copernicus was wrong. The universe is flat and has no center or boarders, again without scientific evidence.
Also, modern consensus science over the last several decades has Earth traveling >2,000,000 mph through the expanding universe: an absurdity.
The Michelson-Morley experiment, attempting to find evidence that Earth orbited the sun, failed. Einstein discredited the experiment by suggesting that space was empty: nothing, or no thing: again an absurdity.
The Michelson-Gale experiment determined that either Earth was rotating at ~1,000 mph, or that the aether (universe) was rotating about Earth.
I can find no satisfactory scientific explanation of how the atmosphere rotates at the same speed as Earth. Absent that evidence, I have to believe that the earth is stationary and the sun orbits Earth.
jacmac wrote:I am not seeing your point; too many velocities relative to what please ?
If Earth is rotating ~1,000 mph relative to a stationary atmosphere everything on the surface would be destroyed. Its like sticking your hand out the window of a fast moving car. The air is relatively stationary. If the wind is blowing at the same velocity and in the same direction as the moving car, there is no effect on your hand.
Either the atmosphere is somehow locked to the surface of the earth, or, Earth is not rotating.
What is the electrical explanation of the atmosphere being locked to the surface of the earth and what scientific experiments have been preformed to support that explanation?