Phew. Long post. :|
but you don't trust any result anyone with a college degree puts out, how am i supposed to reason with you?
Math can be tricky to lie about, because it can easily be checked. Experimental results are easier to fabricate, and fraud is less likely to be detected. Essentially, you are saying the frame of reference for the math is philosophical, which I agree with. In the majority of cases, the simplest math results from using the Earth as our frame of reference.
you still don't understand what experimental accuracy and margins of error mean. you think it means when i measure something with a yard stick, i could be 6 km off of the true reading?
No. But the more the variables, the higher the overall possible error.
if you think Michelson-Morley were wrong, then why don't you point out what you think they missed, instead of waving your hand at any result that doesn't agree with your preconception and saying "it's possible they are light-years off in there calculations so i don't trust any result whatsoever"
Quote (Wikipedia)
Michelson–Morley experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Although this small "velocity" was measured, it was considered far too small to be used as evidence of speed relative to the aether, and
it was understood to be within the range of an experimental error that would allow the speed to actually be zero.” This scientific result simply confirms my Christian belief, based on the scriptures, that Earth is stationary. I don’t need to perform other experiments, because I know the Earth doesn’t move. I also know that whatever evidence I present of this fact to those such as yourself, it will never be enough to overcome your preconceived notions. That is fine with me – your decision is between you and God. My obligation is fulfilled, in that I have instructed you in your error.
or the aether and the earth are not in motion relative to each other.
I say because the Earth is still.
prior and subsequent experiments showed that a drag-imposing aether and the earth cannot be motionless with respect to one another. this has nothing to do with whether the earth is in motion or not. i know i've explained this more than once to you, but i don't think you are reading too carefully what i actually say.
Possibly. I’m not really following you exactly. We have different interpretations of the same experiment, I think.
you claimed that the aether caused foucault's pendulum to precess, and not the rotation of the earth.
Yeah, perhaps I was a little hard on Focault. I still neither trust him, nor his experiment (i.e. I’ve read there have been serious doubts expressed as to the accuracy of these pendulum readings, and I still trust this). However (since reading the words of a wiser man than myself), giving Focault the benefit of the doubt, with respect to what is his pendulum stationary? With the universe (i.e. Heavens)? So the rotation of his pendulum (even if true), proves nothing, because the apparent motion could just as easily be caused by the motion of the Heavens around the Earth, as by the rotation of the Earth about its axis. His pendulum proves naught.
is it that now that it is becoming clear this is not possible that you decide every focault's pendulum ever built is a lie and a hoax, all experimental data are forgeries, and only you and zone have the true knowledge of physics?
I don’t trust liars, or lying organisations. NASA has been caught lying (e.g. moon landing hoax), what reason do I have to ever trust them again? Do you make a habit of trusting liars once they have been caught out? Lots of scientists etc. are trained up (i.e. indoctrinated) in the “educational” institutions, which are funded by those who attempt to run the world. A monkey can be trained to perform tricks, but it can’t be trained to think. Let’s just say I am cautious in trusting the word of anyone, not least of all those who have suffered indoctrination at today’s “learning institutions”.
how about you build one yourself and come back to us in a week or so with the results? i walk past one 5 days a week. want picures?
As stated above, even if it works as Focault describes (and I still have my doubts about this), Focault’s pendulum proves nothing (i.e. it could just as easily prove the Heavens circle the Earth).
i'm sorry, but IIRC in an earlier thread on the same subject, you are espousing a flat earth. before that you were claiming the earth is hollow and the universe is inside it. have you been brought around to spherical now? with us living on the surface?
You misconstrued my words, or are purposely being deceptive. I argued with someone who believed the Earth was hollow, that, when properly interpreted, his evidence could also be used to support that the Earth is flat. I may have a fondness for the “flat earth” idea because of certain scripture passages and some evidence (i.e. that which he presented) that a spherical Earth can’t explain, but I am not yet convinced in my own mind, and hence would certainly not present this idea to you as a fact. To say as you said is dishonest, if not deliberately deceitful.
guess why clouds move at different speeds in the atmosphere.
Because we are not spinning at massive speeds around an imaginary axis of rotation.
Liars. Refer to moon landing fraud.
Not from the aforementioned liars.
you don't trust written records
Of course I trust these, but that doesn’t mean I’m not particular about sources.
you don't trust your own eyes
If I didn’t trust my own eyes, I would accept that the Earth is spinning, and moving about the sun.
you don't trust logic and reason
Of course I do.
you don't trust any "scientist,"
I trust God more than scientists, of course. God never makes mistakes. But (some) scientists have their usefulness.
you don't trust any pendulum
Refer above to the reconsidered position with Focault. I don’t trust him, but even if I did, his pendulum no more proves a rotating Earth than a rotating Heavens.
you don't trust a map, you don't trust ...
C’mon, you’re just making this up to flesh out your ad hominem attack.
why aren't you out there doing experiments for yourself instead of in your armchair saying anything that doesn't agree with your worldview is a forgery and a hoax?
Experiments have been conducted to prove the Earth doesn’t move. To those who believe, this is sufficient. To those who do not believe, I doubt any number of experiments would convince them, because science is not the reason for their doubt.
when you stick your head out of a "moving car" is the air rushing past or are you rushing past the air?
You are rushing past the air.
what is in space that would exert a force on the atmosphere?
Do you know what inertia is? Friction? I know you believe in gravity.
what keeps the atmosphere from blowing off a stationary earth if the universe is rotating around it?
Probably the firmament. What keeps the oceans (and indeed anything that is not nailed down) on the Earth, if the Earth is kept in the sun’s orbit by gravity?
when you throw a baseball, why doesn't it just keep going?
A phenomena we describe as gravity (i.e. a downward directed force).
you are hip to very old Greek models of the universe. are you also hip to very old Greek models of teaching?
I’m not sure. I just love truth, and trust an omniscient God over all the arrogant, ignorant men ever to have lived.