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Old 11-July-2005, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael Mozina
No, I'm suggesting just the opposites of a heliocentric model. I'm suggesting the whole universe spins within an electromagnetic field that is constantly accelerating these balls of iron as they spin through space. I used the 22 year cycle because it suggests that the suns core stays aligned with the univeral field with the universe itself spins.
And you're saying this doesn't have anything to do with this conversation? It has everything to do with it.

Here's the scoop. You look at images, then assume that just by looking at them you can deduce all sorts of things, including that everything we know about physics for the past century is wrong. When people point out the (incredibly copious) errors of your ideas, you simply continue to use those same arguments to make further arguments.

You say we are arrogant, when you are the one who is saying that every single scientist has missed incredibly obvious problems with every field of physics -- including chemistry, relativity, stellar dynamics, solar behavior, fusion, hydrodynamics, basic mechanics, cosmology, and now, evidently, acentrism -- and that you are the one who has figured all this out.

Did I miss anything?

I think that pretty much sums this up. I don't see a whole lot of usefulness coming from this thread at this point. No matter what people say, you are clearly just reacting to what they are saying instead of really thinking about it. You don't even consider the advice of experts, people who study this stuff for a living. And we're supposed to listen to you? Why should we?

I'll give you some credit for trying; it can't be easy to have so many people assaulting your ideas from so many directions. But in a very real sense, that's the point: your idea is assailable from all those different directions, because it's wrong in that many ways. Yet you have not been able to defend the idea against these questions, so you just build more incorrect ideas on top of others.

We have seen many threads go 20+ pages like this. It is invariably due to simple stubbornness on the part of the purveyor of the incorrect idea, because they refuse to budge on any of the issues, even the ones that are the most simply and egregiously incorrect.

I'm locking this. We're going in circles. If anyone wants to start again, they are welcome to, but I will keep my eye on that thread. Int he meantime, Michael Mozina, I strongly urge you to read this advice for posters in this forum, written by someone else who bucks the mainstream.
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