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Old November 1st 18, 09:18 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Regardless of academic dominance, it should be exceptionally painful to realise that the entire gravity scheme is based on RA/Dec which does not represent the rotation of the Earth as it is a combination of circumpolar motion allied to the calendar cycle.

"That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are in the sesquiplicate proportion of their mean distances from the sun.... for the periodic times are the same, and the dimensions of the orbits are the same, whether the sun revolves about the earth, or the earth about the sun." Newton

The problem wasn't Newton's as the decision to bypass the Sun and the 24 hour day/night cycle belonged to those engaged in timekeeping astronomy and what became a celestial sphere subculture that remains dominant today.

By far the greatest error in human endeavor regarding astronomy and terrestrial science as the basic correlation which anchors the Earth's rotation to noon when a location is midway to the circle of illumination is lost to a clockwork scheme which denies the correlation by generating more rotations than noon cycles.

I prefer to concentrate on those issues which free up once the academic society owns the mistake and deals with it like adults but obviously what is left in the newsgroup are the best boys in the class or people who can be influenced by bullies, neither of which have no part in adult discussion.