How can you prove that the rest of our galaxy doesn't spin around our solar system?
Question:
How can one scientifically prove the axis point for these objects is not the Sun?
Answer:
Ask an astrologist. I'm sure they could tell you.
Where to begin with this question
A question not even worth answering. Next maybe you can ask someone to prove gravity to you. Please go get an education.
The farther stars would have to exceed the speed of light. That isn't physically possible (see Einstein)
well for one if you pay close enough attention they dont actually appear to do that. furthermore telescopes show that they move in completely different patterns. since you cant see that with a naked eye or even a regular telescope, you wouldnt have noticed it.
You could be right. All we know could be wrong. We have been wrong before, just like how humans use to think the world was flat.
They are way away from the suns gravity. Everything we see is just a relevant observation.
Didnt people stop believing that hundreds of years ago?
Our sun is like a grain of sand compared to the size of other stars around our galaxy. And our galaxy, the Milky Way is only one in many others galaxies with their own numerous amount of stars.
1. A rotating earth produces observable, and observed, effects:
* The most noticeable is the Coriolis effect, the apparent deflection of the path of an object that moves in a rotating coordinate system. This affects ocean currents, wind patterns (including the path and direction of the spin of hurricanes), and iceberg drift. It must be taken into account when aiming long-range missiles.
* The rotation of the earth is also demonstrated by a Foucault pendulum, the swing of which rotates in relation to the earth's surface as the earth rotates beneath it. (The rate of rotation equals the rate of earth's rotation times the sine of the latitude.)
2. The orbit of the earth around the sun is also observable:
* The nearest stars show a parallax. Their apparent position shifts relative to more distant stars as the earth moves from one side of its orbit to the other. (The effect is the same as the apparent movement of a nearby telephone pole relative to distant mountains as you move a few feet to the side.)
* Stellar aberration shows up as the need to point the telescope slightly ahead of the star's true position, due to the earth's motion perpendicular to the star. It was first measured by James Bradley in 1728.
* Stars near the plane of the earth's orbit show a radial velocity, a slight red shift as the earth moves away from them in its orbit, and six months later, a slight blue shift (Herrick 1935).
* Related to radial velocity, the "light time" effect affects the timing of pulsars and short-term variable stars. General relativistic calculations are needed to correct for it.
* Since the earth's orbit is elliptical, it is closer to the sun in January than in June. The difference in the apparent size of the sun can be observed.
If the earth were stationary, these effects could only be explained if every star in the universe were moving in unison relative to the earth with a periodic variation that matched the earth's year.
3. Heliocentrism falls out naturally from the law of universal gravitation.
4. Heliocentrism is useful. As implied above, it is used for predicting hurricane and iceberg paths and for aiming missiles. The space program would be impossible without it. (The Cassini probe, for example, used the earth's motion around the sun to slingshot the probe to Jupiter.) As with all of creationism, strict geocentrism is useless.
5. To the vast majority of Christians, the Bible is not plainly saying that the earth is stationary. They have accepted that reality is more important than their interpretation of what is "plainly" said.
See for Yourself:
You can make your own Foucault pendulum with a weight on a long, thin cable in a room with a high ceiling. It must be long enough so that air resistance does not stop it before the rotation is evident, and it should be sheltered from winds and drafts.
References:
1. Herrick, Samuel, Jr., 1935. Tables for the reduction of radial velocities to the Sun. Lick Observatory Bulletin 470: 85-90.
By analyzing the motion of the stars by redshift (towards/away) and their proper motions ("up"/"down"/"sideways"), they can get detailed analysis of motion.
Proof can be found in the red and blue shift of these stars. This tells us what direction they are moving in... Observing via the naked eye is impossible to not see the earth as the center or axis point...but once you move away from that "box" of thought and see the red and blue shifts, you can assume what direction those stars are moving in...some towards, others away.
Our solar system is located on one arm of the galaxy, and is not located anywhere near the center of the galaxy.
If you honestly want your question answered fully, take Physics and Astronomy classes... It's absolutely amazing how everything works and how scientist have learned so much about the universe and have figured things out.
Or, for a simpler explanation - go to your local planatarium. (The space and science museum in DC has a great one)
Or, for convenience, do research and google the information.
Maybe you're right. Infact, since you're so bright, maybe the axis point for this whole Galaxy is not the central hub (as it is with all the other spiral galaxies, and the water going down the plughole) but your own pretty head, darling?
The reason objects in the sky don't appear to move is because they are millions of light years away and motion isn't detected as easily when large distances exist. If you are standing on a mountain watching a car drive down the road in the valley below you, does it look as fast as if you were standing on the edge of the road as the car passed? Simply put, they are moving but the processes are so slow that you will never be able to tell in your short lifetime. If you lived for 2 million years, then you might see some changes.
Our galaxy can be compared to a flushing toilet, but instead of water spinning around a pipe, you have stars spinning around a massive black hole. We are about 1/4 of the way to the center, so it will be millions and millions of years before we reach the event horizon.
One other thing to realize is that when you look into the sky away from city lights, you can actually see the bands of the Milky Way galaxy as faint clouds of light where all of the stars are organized when they are captured by the gravitational pull of the black hole. The axis of the other solar systems, like ours, is moving around the black hole at the center of our galaxy. There are physics equations that prove this as well because the laws of gravity are generally universal.
We have no proof yet but we have estimated that the galactic disk, which bulges outward at the galactic center, has a diameter of between 70,000 and 100,000 light-years. The distance from the Sun to the galactic center is now estimated at 26,000 ± 1400 light-years while older estimates could put the Sun as far as 35,000 light-years from the central bulge. So the galaxy does not spin around our sun. Although you're welcome to present evidence showing otherwise.
However, the galactic center harbors a compact object of very large mass (named Sagittarius A), strongly suspected to be a supermassive black hole. Most galaxies are believed to have a supermassive black hole at their center.
More Questions & Answers...