▲ 733 ▼ I'm starting to wonder if they've thought this out. (sh.itjust.works) submitted 2 years ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/dankmemes@lemmy.world 154 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) This is a proof for sun is orbiting around the earth (I'm just joking) permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Heliocentrism didn't come about just from observing the sun. We also had to observe the planets and figure out why they would suddenly change direction in the sky. After centuries of increasingly complex models that decently described the planetary motion with geocentrism, some calculating and new models that put the sun at the center made a lot of the models much more consistent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Exactly. It's not that a geocentric model can't be mathematically described and used to predict, it's just that the math is much, much easier if you put the sun in the middle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Pick the right frame of reference, and the world really does revolve around you. 😁 permalink fedilink source parent [–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Funny, but then it would still be all dark or all light at once. Or do flat earthers also deny time zones? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Flat earthers actually believe the sun is small and close (like the moon) and that it sort of rotates over the flat earth. Still hella dumb though because you should conceivably always be able to see the sun since it is a flat earth and the sun is above it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Heliocentrism didn't come about just from observing the sun. We also had to observe the planets and figure out why they would suddenly change direction in the sky. After centuries of increasingly complex models that decently described the planetary motion with geocentrism, some calculating and new models that put the sun at the center made a lot of the models much more consistent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Exactly. It's not that a geocentric model can't be mathematically described and used to predict, it's just that the math is much, much easier if you put the sun in the middle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Pick the right frame of reference, and the world really does revolve around you. 😁 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Exactly. It's not that a geocentric model can't be mathematically described and used to predict, it's just that the math is much, much easier if you put the sun in the middle. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Pick the right frame of reference, and the world really does revolve around you. 😁 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago Pick the right frame of reference, and the world really does revolve around you. 😁 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Funny, but then it would still be all dark or all light at once. Or do flat earthers also deny time zones? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Flat earthers actually believe the sun is small and close (like the moon) and that it sort of rotates over the flat earth. Still hella dumb though because you should conceivably always be able to see the sun since it is a flat earth and the sun is above it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SCB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Flat earthers actually believe the sun is small and close (like the moon) and that it sort of rotates over the flat earth. Still hella dumb though because you should conceivably always be able to see the sun since it is a flat earth and the sun is above it. permalink fedilink source parent
