The Phases of Venus

This a major breakthrough in the Heliocentric Theory!! The fact that Venus is not far from the Sun in the sky is very crucial to my theory. Venus is illuminated by the Sun from the CENTER of its orbit.

With the Ptolemaic System, Venus would always be in a crescent phase, which is definitely NOT true. Venus goes through phases, and as you can see by my diagram, in order for that to happen it needs to be orbiting around the Sun!

What's Up With The Phases of Venus?

I've also been using my wonderful telescope to observe the wonderful planet Venus! I've observed that the Venus goes through a full set of phases, just like the moon. As you can see, this completely rules out the Ptolmaic system, and supports the theories of both Copernicus and Tycho Brahe!


I'll explain the phases in my next post! Pretty excited right now!


Until next time, 

The MOON

Lately, I've been doing an intense study of the Moon with my telescope, and I've discovered a couple of new (and exciting!) things. The moon is not as perfect as the Ptolemaic system suggested, it is actually quite mountainous. It has craters, much like the Earth!

Seriously, Guys...

Okay, so remember that tides theory I told you all about? Well, people have been saying that it's a failure. First of all, how rude. Second, it's not. IT'S CORRECT.

Everyone, has been saying that if my theory were true, there would only be one high tide per day. I know, I know, it is true that there is more than one high tide per day, but really, it all depends on certain factors; the shape of the sea, the depth, etc.

I'm right, everyone else is wrong. That's just the way it is.

The Tides!!

I've come up with a theory about the tides in the seas; the tides are caused by the moving back and forth of the water as a point on the surface of the Earth sped up and slowed down due to the Earth's rotation on its axis and its revolution around the sun.  So simple!

I can also use this theory to defend the Copernican theory. It directly proves that the Earth IS in motion!

Until next time,

More about Inertia

People have argued that if the Earth were spinning on its axis, then people would all be moving at hundreds of miles an hour. So if you dropped a object straight down from the top of a tower, it would land backward of the initial dropping point instead of landing straight down. Basically, the previous idea was that if the Earth was moving, we would feel it. Just to prove this wrong, I likened the moving Earth, to a moving ship. According to the idea that if you dropped an object straight down it would go backwards, if I drop a ball from the top of the mast of a ship, it shouldn't land at the base of the mast. I dropped a ball from the top of the mast on a moving ship, and guess where the ball landed? That's right, at the base of the mast, as if the ship had not been moving at all.

Objects falling on Earth, move together with the Earth's rotation.

The Law of Inertia!!

What is inertia you ask? Well an object in motion possesses an inertia that causes it to remain in motion, with its same velocity and direction unless acted on by an external force. For example, a block of wood on a table. If you push that block of wood, it will come to rest if you stop pushing. Why? Because of Friction.
There are two opposite forces acting on this block of wood; the pushing force and friction.

If the force of friction was not acting on it, an object could be pushed across a table preserving a constant speed forever, even after it is no longer being pushed. The only way this object could be stopped or the constant speed interrupted is if an outside force acted on it.