Galileo's Thought Experiment

PBS Learning Media
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Classroom Material
Keywords
NOVA Galileo's Battle for the Heavens milestones historical figures heliocentric Galileo astronomy motion thought experiment relativity
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Science
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Galileo's Thought Experiment

This video from NOVA shows a dramatization of one of Galileo's thought experiments designed to help prove that Earth moves around the Sun at great speed. This was a controversial idea in Galileo's time. Even today, many people do not understand why we do not feel this motion. 
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PBS Learning Media

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