Experimentation and Heliocentricity

Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

(Isaiah 47:13-14) KJV

The experimental basis for the purported proof of heliocentricity is vast. Fortunately we collected up all of the submissions to our “can you prove heliocentricity?” challenge which began December 25, 2015.

Here’s the list of things, phenomena or individuals, that purportedly prove heliocentricity, only they don’t. Not even close. Articles which supposedly prove heliocentricity, or debunk Geocentrosphericity, are generally a hodgepodge of 2-7 of the items below.

1. Aberration of starlight
2. Aether drag
3. Angular size of the sun
4. Aristarchus
5. Bessel and 61 Cygni
6. Bradley and Molyneux
7. Citing incorrect Geocentric models
8. Copernicus
9. Coriolis effect
10. Doppler and the Voyagers
11. Eclipses
12. Foucault pendulum
13. Gravitational assists
14. Gravity
15. Kepler’s Laws
16. Lorentz’ length contraction
17. Luminiferous aether
18. Mass of the sun / Newtonian physics
19. Moons of Jupiter
20. Phases of Venus
21. Procession of the equinoxes
22. Pulsars
23. Redshift / Universe expansion
24. Relativistic reference frames
25. Retrograde / relative motion
26. Sagans
27. Seasons and weather
28. Spacecraft
29. Special relativity
30. Stellar parallax
31. Stellar spectroscopy
32. Transit of the ISS during an eclipse
33. Transit of Venus
34. Variation in the sun’s orbital radius

None of these purported proofs prove heliocentricity. They’ve been woven into the peer review driven narrative of heliocentricity by using sleight-of-and and the tragically poor state of scientific knowledge of the general populace. Popular science (SciPop) couldn’t exist without ignorance.