The Case against Copernicus

• We don’t feel as though we are traveling at ~700 mph around the axis of the earth (at the equator, it’s about 1000 mph).

• We don’t feel as though we are traveling at ~66,000 miles per hour around the sun. [584,040,000 miles per year / 8,760 hours per year = 66,703 mph].

• If from one year to the next, we were 186,000,000 miles closer to the other side of the galaxy, we should be able to observe stellar parallax.

• Common sense says, “We’re standing still and everything else is moving around us.”