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In the geocentric universe, what keeps the stars fixed in their constellations as the whole universe rotates?

A viewer asks how, in the geocentric universe, the stars stay in the same place, keeping the same constellations, as everything revolves around the earth each day.

Answer

Geocentrism has the perfect answer for this. In the geocentric system the earth is at the center of mass of the universe, and the universe rotates around it once per day, which is why we see the sun cross the sky and the stars come up in the east. You do not see Orion fly apart after so many years; the stars stay in the constellation, which is why Orion, mentioned in Job's day, still looks the same today. The whole universe and everything in it revolves like one big bowling ball. What holds it together is that every rotation creates forces, and they have names: the centrifugal force, the Coriolis force, and the Euler force. All three are working in the universe as it rotates, and those who discovered this call it a gravitational force, because they act just like gravity, only much stronger than the local, weak gravity of each body, which falls off by the inverse square law. In the Newtonian system these three are dismissed as fictitious forces or artifacts of motion, but in the geocentric system they are real forces that hold every star and celestial body in its place as the whole universe rotates, and you get those forces only because the universe is rotating. I found all this in general relativity and wrote about it from the geocentric perspective.

Dr. Robert Sungenis

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