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| Dec 10, 2020 at 2:39 | comment | added | alephzero | Before GPS was invented, all celestial navigation of ships and aircraft was done "assuming" that the earth was stationary and the sun and stars moved around it once per day. Navigators didn't care where celestial objects "really" were in space, they only wanted to know which direction to look, to see them from the surface of the earth.. | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 22:54 | comment | added | Captain HD | This is a beautiful response! I wouldn't have said "not absolutely wrong", though. This is because it really is not wrong, just much easier to deal with mathematically. It would seem might teachers and the entirety of the internet has been too strong on their statements to such a degree that I had been given the impression that everyone believes the Sun is in a stationary frame of reference with respect to all the planets. This was actually so bad that I held this belief only up until today whilst thinking about relativity. It didn't even occur to me after learning basic relativity! | |
| Dec 9, 2020 at 22:03 | history | answered | Andrew Steane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |