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How does a geocentric model explain the Foucault pendulum?

A viewer asks how the Foucault pendulum can be explained if the Earth is fixed and does not rotate.

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The Foucault pendulum is like the stellar parallax that we talked about earlier. Remember, parallax can be explained by having the Earth go around the Sun, because it's going to look at the stars from different angles six months apart, or by having the star field move around a fixed Earth. And it's the same with the Foucault pendulum. The Foucault pendulum can be explained by having the Earth rotate underneath the pendulum, whose bob that goes back and forth will not rotate with the earth. Or the universe rotates around the Earth, and as it does, it's going to make this Foucault pendulum turn on an angle the same way it does in the heliocentric version. So it's very simple. That's what would happen if the universe went around a fixed Earth. The Foucault pendulum would swing just like it swings in the heliocentric version with the Earth rotating under a fixed star field. No magic.

Answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis

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