ISAAC SHOWS THE WAY

What would Isaac have said
about our own idea of the
solar system?

"All your astronomy books show the system in the same inadequate way ..."

... says Isaac.

"... as a flat, horizontal disc, that presumably flies through space like a frisbee!"

"What happens when you reach the edge?

Precisely!

What is this? Some kind of latter-day flat-earth mentality? Shame on you!"

"No, no, no! In order to understand the actual movement of the solar system in relation to the galaxy as a whole, the disc must first be raised upright ..."

"Then a line must be drawn from the centre of the solar system to the centre of the galaxy (GC) ..."

"Give it a shove forward and see what happens ..."    NEXT