ericmurphy
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| Quote (The Ghost of Paley @ Nov. 29 2005,18:26) | | Quote | | If everything orbits the earth, shouldn't the parallax of every body out there on the sphere be zero[or non-equal]? |
Patience. It will all come together shortly. Genius moves at its own pace, after all. |
No, it definitely wouldn't be non-equal. It might be non-zero, but if everything's the same distance from the earth, everything should have the same parallax, even if it's non-zero, due to divine sloppiness.
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