The Foucalt Pendulum is NOT proof against Geocentrism, and more...
Segment from Chapter 4 of "Geocentrism 101", by Dr. Robert Sungenis.
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The Foucault Pendulum
The laws of physics help us to critique other popular proofs alleged for heliocentrism. For example, all over the world today giant swinging pendulums are displayed in various museums. These are replicas of the work of Jean Foucault who in 1851 made the first such pendulum. As one enters a modern museum, he is told that as the pendulum changes the direction of its movement (which, as we see from the picture, causes the pendulum bob to knock down small objects placed at various points on the perimeter of the pendulum’s movement), this serves as proof that the Earth underneath the pendulum is rotating.
As noted earlier, the realization by Ernst Mach that our world was not only visually relative (as is the case in parallax and aberration), but also dynamically relative, meant that the Foucault pendulum provided no proof of the Earth’s rotation. As Mach showed that the force pulling one off a spinning carousal came from the gravity of the stars that permeates all of space, so a similar cause can explain why a Foucault Pendulum changes the direction of its sway, or even why hurricanes often rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere but clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
Mach and his followers showed that a relative rotation between the star field and the Earth would produce three kinds of dynamic forces: 1. The centrifugal force that causes one to be pulled off a spinning carousal; 2. The Coriolis force, discovered by Gustave Coriolis in 1835, which causes hurricanes to spin in a certain direction; 3. The Euler force, named after Leonard Euler who died in 1783, which force causes one to go backward at a slight angle as soon as the carousal starts its circular motion. The force most responsible for the turning of the Foucault Pendulum is the Coriolis force. Essentially, Mach showed that the Coriolis force can be created either by a rotating Earth in a fixed star field or by the star field rotating around a fixed Earth.
This reciprocity is so because, as Mach discovered, without knowing which object is at rest, all motion must be considered relative. In fact, three hundred years earlier Galileo had discovered the same truth, and it became known as Galilean Relativity. But Galileo didn’t know enough about the stars to apply the principle of Galilean Relativity to the relationship between the cosmos and the Earth, and therefore he defaulted to a heliocentric view. In the end, despite popular opinion, the Foucault Pendulum offers no proof for the heliocentric system.