Notice how the title rhymed? I thought that was pretty darn clever.
Anyways, I don't know if you are aware, but I also made the best measurements that had yet been made in the search for stellar parallax. Parallax is the apparent movement of something close to you based on your changing perspective. Maybe heliocentric objectors use this idea to support their beliefs. If everything was actually revolving around the sun, then we would see the stars moving over the course of the year, however we don't.
I did not observe any parallax for the stars, and thus came to two conclusions.
1) The Earth was motionless at the center of the universe, OR
2) The stars were so far away that their parallax was too small to measure
I went with the first choice, because the idea of the stars being so far away is simply absurd, right? I don't care what those heliocentrics, I stand by my theory.
Tycho, I'm pretty sure you're about the Earth being motionless in the center. Copernicus's theory shows the sun at the center with the Earth revolving around it. I think that the answer must be that stars are too far away to have a measurable parallax.
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