James Altucher chats with Brian Keating about news in science, and his upcoming audio book with Carlo Rovelli - Galilleo's Dialogue! (#218)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Why Is the Earth Rotating the Sun?
Glan: If the earth was just there, and rotating on its axis, that's completely disconnected from its rotation or revolution around the sun. And in fact, tat every star that we see on the earth would be there in the exact same way if there was no sun whatever. But my point that it's so difficult to do, is that even galileo himself, here's a finger puppet. He invented an argument that we now know to be completely wrong. That argument overlooked the effect of the earth's a tides caused by the moon.
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