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OK..what do you do with the observed parallax shifts of nearby stars
viewed 6 months apart?
rwt
On 3/25/2015 1:52 PM, Joseph Bellina wrote:
How about as the stellar sphere rotates daily around the earth thependulum is dragged with it. I think that goes back to Mach
not
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On Mar 25, 2015, at 1:32 PM, "John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org> wrote:
Of course from the point of view of students in HS they generally can
aroundcome up with any good evidence for why we insist that the Earth goes
withoutthe Sun. They have been told it so much that they parrot it back
explainedany evidence to back it up. Every observation they cite can be
aeither way.
"An Inquiry into Science Education, Where the Rubber Meets the Road" is
authorlittle book which should be read by all science educators. In it the
evidenceconvinces most students during a summer institute that they have no
them atfor which is true. He gets them to understand the difference between
evidence and just accepting what they have been told. When he asks
theythe end to write out how they they know the Sun goes around the Earth,
centerednow tend to say "It could be either according to what I know."
The observations of the other planets can be explained in an Earth
orbits.system as long as you do not try to figure the mechanism behind the
thatAn important piece in the puzzle is the Foucault pendulum which shows
about itthe Earth is rotating. Then of course there are things like large
whirlpools and weather patterns. MS and HS students do not generally
understand this. Actually I bet most college students do not know
witheither, even in science classes. Can the pendulum be explained along
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