Plato's Universe : The beauty of the geocentric model

Plato’s Universe is a simulation of the geocentric model of the universe that was popularized by Plato in the Timaeus in 360 BC.

[Zaque-TV]

This is actually accurate when thought of as relative to the rest of the universe. Unless you can prove where the earth is in the whole of reality at any given point, we might as well be the center 🤷

[michaelbayer]

... its Like a flower of Lotus swimming in sea of time.

[Aurora_yt]

How the hell do you even measure stellar parallax using this archaic antiquated model of the *SOLAR* system?

[StinkyCashFlatEarth]

alex, slow the planets down by 365x but leave the sun the way it is. Then you will have things more accurate. The sun circles earth once a day. Not once a year.

[ryanwyrick]

The geocentric model does answer for retrograde. You just showed it. The flower of life patterns all have retrograde. I'm confused why you said that.

[PedraamJam]

Has anyone completed it so we can predict the position of the planets based on that model?

[aboyfrombangladesh]

What about stellar parallax? Doesn't it disprove Geo centrism

[stephenvis]

Can you explain the elements involved and their nature? Planet, speed, distance etc.?

[Angel_Sony]

The animation looks very cool but I spotted a few things that are fundamentally wrong:

1)Venus and Mercury should never be opposite the Sun with the Earth in the middle.

2)Venus and Mercury MUST at some point get behind the Sun from Earth's point of view.

3)All the planets should always remain the same distance from the Sun. With the Moon being the only exception.

We could also mention size, movement speed and distances being false, but that really doesn't matter. We all do the same with the normal Solar System models. But those previously mentioned things are fundamental errors that can not happen in any model you decide to use.

I hope this helps you improve these animations, to show people the real beauty of the geocentric model.

[crimsondeath]

What i find most fascinating about this model is how the hell Plato identified Mercury as kind of the second smaler moon to Luna as the he identified as the full Moon. How could he have known like we do today that Mercury is more or less a moon rather than a planet like Pluto. In fact You can google what if mercury was our moon and it would work. Not as good as with Luna but still. Both of them does not seem unlikely to work on shift like Plato tought. Mercury is all in all such a strange rabbit whole when you start to look at, all the deities assosiated with it, its many names, characters "months" etc named after it. Mercury the Magician ∞ Half Janus/ half Mercury today: January. Half Hermres/Afrodite /phosphorous"phoebus(PhoeniX) now Febuary. Then we have MARS wich stands alone

[joshuabarrick]

Hi Alex, my name is Josh and I am a TV Assistant Producer for a NASA-approved documentary series. Do you have an email address I can contact you to enquire about asking for permission to use your animation for our show? Many thanks.

[PozieNayan]

*Problems*
All celestial objects takes *24 hours* to complete a circle around the earth.
- Earth circumference is 40, 075km = 24, 850 miles
- The moon as the nearest object moves at least 1, 180 km/h around the earth in *24 hours* .
- The sun, as bit further with mercury & venus have to move faster to keep their phases with the moon.
- the further the celestial object from earth, the faster it has to keep up with the 24 hours time.
- so planets Mars, Jupiter, Saturn etc are orbiting in much faster higher speed. But because these are planets; so they have to travel faster than the stars in the background.
- comets in other hand have to triple quadruple the speed to reach the sun while orbiting the earth in 24 hours in the same time.
- nearest stars accelerates faster.
- the Milky Way, as the furthest, how much speed will it takes to circle the earth in 24 hours?
- then come the Andromeda...

Light speed is to slow, we need ludicrous speed.

[nathanielbarraza]

I like diehold foundation explanation about toroid logic

[surajbhatta]

Study Surya sidhdhanta, an ancient vedic astronomy. It gave this concept including distance of planets from the earth and diameters of the planets. It's beautifully explained everything.

[HalfWarrior]

The earth doesn’t move; correct, buy it is not a sphere just sitting motionless in blank space. The sun and moon are in the firmament of the earth over a flat plane.

[walt]

Remember, the reference point does not move.

[ForMyDawg]

That can’t be right, the orange path is not orbital the sun.

[aneyethatcansee]

Why is your Earth so small? That is disingenuous to the actual model🤔 Flat, stationary and enclosed 🧐

[clivewynnciel]

Nice. I'm pleased to see an explanation of the beauty of the geocentric model without being rattled by abusive comments against Flat-earthers.

[haloodst]

Another nail in the “plato is an idiot” coffin.