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| May 25, 2014 at 18:32 | comment | added | Shep | I don't know if I'd consider the solar system to be "earthly", but sure, most of my arguments apply only to things smaller than the entire cosmos. For the larger system, as I said we've already defined several of these. They tend to put the earth / sun in the center, but that makes perfect sense given that the universe extends equally in all directions. | |
| May 24, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | Rijul Gupta | You seem to only consider earthly problems, we define frames according to need. A frame that large may not be of use to define motion of a measly ant on earth but certainly useful to describe motion of entire clusters. | |
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| May 24, 2014 at 14:44 | history | answered | Shep | CC BY-SA 3.0 |