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Originally Posted by trth_skr
I am amazed at how many people try and disprove geocentricity using abberation, parallax, and other observations, as though these would not be the same in a geocentric system. They basically have to be the same. A coordinate transform does not change relative observations (nor does it prove the matter, of course).
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Many Geocentrics refute GR and believe in absolute space and time -- some because they realize that GR does away with the possibility of any preferred frame, some because they like to cling on to the idea that the Michelson Morley experiment demonstrated that the earth does not move relative to the aether. Often these arguments against Geocentrism that you talk about are given out of ignorance about GR, but quite frequently they are given because a Geocentric can't consistently refute them and refute GR in favour of a Newtonian universe.
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