Does the sun go around the earth after all?

I had been thinking about writing about this a while ago, when I got a phone call with exactly this question (sitting in an astronomy department makes you get all kinds of phone calls), but I then forgot about it. Over at Cosmic Variance, they have done it for me :-). Baseline is: you can choose any coordinate system you want and that you find convenient, also ones in which the earth is at rest and everything else rotates around it.

thanks alot!!

thanks alot!!

That's all true because the

That's all true because the bible said that......

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