if all motion is relative, how do we know the Earth isn’t stationary with everything else in the Universe rotating around us, albeit in a right weird and in uniform way.

Question

if all motion is relative, how do we know the Earth isn’t stationary with everything else in the Universe rotating around us, albeit in a right weird and in uniform way.

In: Physics

Answer 1

The patterns and relative motions of these things were noticed and measured, early on scientists and theologians did think the universe revolved around the Earth, but the measurements only made sense when we revolved around the Sun (heliocentric) later measurements then were able to show that the Sun was also in motion.