(July 22, 2022 at 10:25 am)h311inac311 Wrote: Did you feel any of that spinning, eliptical, motion at all? Or did an oblate wizard tell you what to think and you just gobbled it up wholsale without ever looking through his telescope or zooming in on a single star?
Yes, I have looked through telescopes. I have even looked through research telescopes (Yerkes observatory's 40 inch refractor).
We feel acceleration, not velocity. And while the velocities are large(ish), the accelerations are small. They can, however, be detected if you do the right measurements.
Oblate wizard? Do you even know what it means to be oblate as opposed to prolate? these are legitimate mathematical terms that describe the shapes of objects that are close to being spherical.