ABSTRACT

The world is turning around the sun, and the lights (stars) appear to be moving because the world is spinning like a top. The world is round, and there is no ceiling. So, granted the world is round, then the sun and the lights in the sky are turning around the world, right? It was noted by Edwin P. Hubble about eighty years ago that galaxies in the sky (groups of billions of stars) are moving away from each other, which is just the sort of thing one would expect in an explosion. The stars in curved space are separating from each other as though they were dots on the curved surface of a balloon. As the nuclear fires in stars use up all their fuel and burn out, there will be nothing left in space except black, massive objects hurtling away from each other. Thermonuclear fusion is what makes the Sun shine, and makes other stars shine also.