Why the Europeans Stuck to the Geocentric Model

Why did the West persistently believe that the Sun went around the Earth when the Hindus already had the heliocentric model from 500 AD?

The West believed that the universe was made up of 5 Elements as:

1. Earth
2. Water
3. Fire
4. Air
5. Aether

This now manifests as:

1. The Strong Force
2. The Weak Force
3. Electromagnetism
4. Spacetime
5. Ether

This has a natural hierarchy. For example, a rock’s atoms are bound by the strong force which is made visible by electromagnetism which exists in space and time.

The problem was that the Greeks interpreted the ’earth’ element to be literally the Earth planet and the ‘fire’ element to be the Sun!

Before the Concentric Spheres system was taught in the world, the earth was regarded as a vast and irregular plain, surrounded on all sides by the ocean.. This was believed by Xenophanes, the founder of the Eleatic philosophy.. [and] Thales of Miletus too, who, according to Aristotle, represented the Earth as floating on an immense ocean of water.

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Adam Smith History of Astronomy

When put in a hierarchy, it leads to spheres of influence so that the earth is surrounded by water, which is surrounded by the sun which is then surrounded by air and the aether.

This logically leads to the geocentric theory.

Kepler tried to harmonize the traditional geocentric with the new heliocentric theory of Copernicus by:

• converting the spheres into orbits
• putting the Sun as the center earth element.

But he wrongly tried to rearrange the 5 elements to fit astronomical data – the same mistake that the ancients made.

The Rise of Matter

Newton solved this confusion by throwing away the Greek 5 Elements model and merely basing all of the universe on the earth element, as matter, with visible mass as the cornerstone.

From there, ‘science’ clawed its way back to ‘discovering’ the true 5 Elements as the ‘Standard Model’ of strong, weak, electromagnetism, etc.

The big problem with this is that the earth element (strong force), although the most obvious, is also the most inferior. In the hierarchy, it is the effect that is farthest from the ultimate cause.

• The proper basis of physics should be the aether (Hindu akasha) as the ‘boss’ of the 5 Elements.

Because of this wrong basis, Newtonian Physics is forever stuck. It can never know the real cause of phenomena but is so familiar with obvious effects.

Before Newton came along, the Physics of Descartes was the mainstream and proper one, as it correctly knew 3 of the 5 Elements and applied it to physical and astronomical phenomena.

• In Descartes’ model, aether is superior to matter.

Descartes, with his aethereal vortices, therefore is the key to fixing all the problems with the Newtonian system.

You would think that seeing galaxies in a spiral shape and DNA with a helix shape would prompt people to bring back Descartes’ vortices. But it seems that Newton has totally destroyed Cartesian Physics that people nowadays just know Descartes for abstract philosophy, as “I think therefore I am”.

• Notice how English translations of Descartes’ Principles of Philosophy avoid translating the essential parts of Descartes’ Physics in Part 3:
  • https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/descartes1644.pdf
  • https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4391/pg4391-images.html

Update May 2026: What is the Geocentric Theory Good for?

A lot of effort has been made by Aristotle and Ptolemy on the geocentric theory and so it must have some use somewhere.

This is similar to Flat Earthers making a lot of effort to prove the Earth is flat. They are merely expressing the Physics of other universes where space particles have different shapes or programming that causes planets to become flat.

But the geocentric theory is based on real observations or our galaxy at least, and so it should be discarded so easily as the flat earth theory.

The real use of the geocentric theory is in astrology.

The stars are so far away that the sun and earth can be merged and treated as one central location.

Both Aristotle and Ptolemy were astrologists aside from being astronomers.

Astrology relies on the behavioral impact of starlight on the organisms that it lands on.

This is why we regard sunlight as part of astrology.

• It makes people stay away in the daytime, yet some humans stay awake at night – therefore sunlight causing wakefulness is subjective and not an absolute fact.
• Some animals are nocturnal

Superphysics astrology is based on Kepler who used real data from planet positions and correctly had the concept of vayu that facilitates the action of light.

The Sassani no longer use astrology as they can manipulate their vayu by themselves, and are already going into non physical 5th density.