You can, and you’d be 100% correct. It actually annoys me that we still teach kids that the Earth revolves around the Sun and the ancients with their silly ear

You can, and you’d be 100% correct. It actually annoys me that we still teach kids that the Earth revolves around the Sun and the ancients with their silly earth-centric system were wrong. Just the math is (kinda [1]) simpler, thats all. First, its a lie. And second it breeds contempt for the ancients that said and discovered many great things. I dont mind telling them that heliocentism is a great (amazing) approximation. But I really dont appreciate how from K-University previous work that has been outdone is dismissed [2] [1] the higher order terms are sill there in the heliocentric system, they're just smaller in magnitude. [2] Another example is atomism and how the physicists who rejected it are mocked in undergrad classes. Those guys were bloody titans and their models and methods are the cornerstone of modern engineering (try designing a bridge w/out continuum mechanics but using MD)