Expert: Steven LJ Russo - 3/29/2010

Question
QUESTION: Is it not true that the sun is heavy and has bent space (much like a black hole) and has created a spacial cone that the earth has fallen into and being a bit lighter revolves within the confines of the cone around or appears to be around the sun? So is it possible that the earth doesn't really revolve around the sun?

ANSWER: It is obvious from your questions that you do not believe in real science, very much like the folks who believe that the Earth is flat, or we didn't go to the Moon.

I would appreciate it if you take your questions elsevere.

Steve


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QUESTION: This is not really a belief question. Its my understanding that Einstein said that things float around in space and sometimes collide and get stuck together becoming very heavy which is what the sun did. That mass then attracted other objects, like the creation of the solar system. To me it makes my question logical.

I don't appreciate intellectual insult.

Answer
Dave.

My apologies.  I was hoping that you would write back.  One person had e-mailed me two times, insisting that there was no proof that the planets orbited the Sun, and that there was no proof that the Sun was in the center of the Solar System.  I thought you were that same person.

I do understand what you are saying about Einsteins work, but it is well accepted by Astronomers throughout the world that the Sun formed from a nebula, and then left over pieces formed the rest of the Solar System objects.

My field of Astronomy is not Astrophysics and stuff like relativity, so I cant go into THAT.

Steve