Soul Land: The Heavens and the Earth
Chapter 944

Lu Qibin's Past: Extra Five-The Sun Is the Center

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"That's impossible!"

Hearing that the earth was moving, Li Yang's expression changed drastically. He vehemently denied it and demanded, "If the earth is moving, then why do we land in the same place when we jump?

If the earth is moving, why can't we sense it?!

If the earth is moving, then not a single mountain should be able to stand upon it!"

"Indeed, those are all unknown mysteries."

Unlike Zhou Qing, Smith had not lived two lives and did not understand the various scientific concepts of a modern worldview. But he knew one thing: "Things appear smaller when they are farther away."

"What?"

Li Yang froze, unable to understand why Smith had suddenly brought up such a universally known concept. Then he suddenly realized something. He sharply raised his head and looked again at the stars, no bigger than grains of rice or sesame seeds. A question suddenly arose in his mind—

If one could view them up close, just how large would those rice-grain-sized stars be?

The earth was moving... Assuming the earth truly was moving, then the trajectories of those stars I recorded would show warped, circling paths. That seemed to explain part of it, but there were still many doubts that could not be resolved! Taking the earth as the center...

Thinking of this, Li Yang could not figure it out no matter how hard he tried, so he asked, "Indeed, if the earth is also moving, then the sun and moon orbiting the earth could explain some of the trajectories of the stars, but there are still many doubts."

"Those doubts are all based on the idea that everything revolves around the earth as the center, aren't they?" Smith's lips curled upward. "Since you've made one assumption, why not be bolder? Why must the earth

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