Galileo was punished by the church for teaching that the sun is stationary and earth move around it . his opponents held the view that the earth is stationary and the sun moves around it . if the absolute motion has no meaning, are the two viewpoints not equally correct or equally wrong ? Preceding contribs ) 11 : 45, 18 April 2011 ( UTC)
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In other words, it is not the relative motion of the pail and water that causes concavity of the water, contrary to the idea that motions can only be relative, and that there is no absolute motion . ( This situation would correspond to diagram D . ) Possibly the concavity of the water shows rotation relative to " something else " : say absolute space?
