Geocentrism: Questions & Answers

Explore 86 questions and answers about Geocentrism, answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis.

The Church condemned heliocentrism in 1616 and 1633 for a reason, and the physics of the last 140 years has never produced an experiment that shows the Earth moving. These questions and answers walk through the evidence.

This hub gathers every question I have answered on the position of the Earth in the universe. The short version: no experiment in the history of science has ever detected the Earth's motion through space. Michelson and Morley expected to measure it in 1887 and measured nothing. The follow-up experiments by Michelson and Gale, by Sagnac, and by Airy fit a stationary Earth with a rotating universe at least as well as a moving Earth, and Einstein built relativity precisely to explain away that null result. Relativity itself concedes the point in a different form: if all motion is relative, the Earth-centered frame is as valid as any other, which is why Hawking, Ellis, and Hoyle each admitted in print that a geocentric universe cannot be ruled out by observation.

The modern data adds something the ancients never had. The cosmic microwave background, mapped by three satellites, is aligned with the plane and the equinoxes of the Earth's own orbit. Galaxies and quasars appear in concentric shells around us. Cosmologists call the first result the axis of evil because it points at us.

I also hold that this is not a neutral scientific question for a Catholic. The decrees of 1616 and 1633 were issued by the Holy Office with papal approval, they have never been formally reversed, and the Fathers of the Church were unanimous that Scripture teaches a fixed Earth. The Galileo Was Wrong series lays out the science in volumes 1 and 2 and the Church history in volume 3, and the documentaries The Principle and Journey to the Center of the Universe put it on film.