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What's wrong with choosing an arbitrary reference point to be local. Choosing a non-inertial reference frame would be the problem. Relative velocities (includ
by camccann 17y ago
What's wrong with choosing an arbitrary reference point to be local.
Choosing a non-inertial reference frame would be the problem.
Relative velocities (including temporal velocity...) are essentially arbitrary, but acceleration is not; and the accelerating forces experienced by objects in the solar system are overwhelmingly dominated by the sun.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoYes a non-IFoR is a problem but then then pretty much every point we'd want to choose is accelerating relative to us. I'd dispute that for the majority of people the sun's gravity is the dominating force - seems Earth's gravity is pretty dominant to me. But I think I must have had my trolling hat on for this one, sorry.