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Comment by daynthelife

1 hour ago

Not defending GP, but your claim that actual truth "obviously exists" is equally condescending and empty of backing evidence.

Would you say the continuum hypothesis (or its negation) is "actual truth"? Or does the "actual truth" become something closer to "actually, there are models of ZFC where CH holds as well as models where it doesn't hold, or maybe ZFC is already inconsistent; we don't really know, nor can we."?

Similarly, on the subject of astronomical reference frames, I'd argue the "actual truth" is closer to this:

> Any reference frame that locally obeys Newton's law of inertia is equally valid. Some are more useful than others depending on the problem you are studying. The notion of an "absolute center" is purely semantic, and a meaningless human construct, until one places bounds on the system under study, wherein the center of mass becomes the most reasonable choice at sub-cosmological scales.