It was thought in ancient Greece that anything that wasn't a planet (wanderer, including the sun and moon) in the sky was fixed on a giant, hollow, rotating sphere. Conservatives persecuted anyone who disagreed. The three-dimensional nature of the universe later gained acceptance, but everyone assumed that it was all part of the same compact system with the sun at about the center of it all, even after Telescopes could spot galaxies outside our own. Conservatives persecuted anyone who disagreed. In the 20th Century, things started making more sense as individual stars in external galaxies were resolved and redshifts were measured to find recessional velocities of distant objects. After one final mumble in the scientific community that we may actually be at the rough center of the universe
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| - It was thought in ancient Greece that anything that wasn't a planet (wanderer, including the sun and moon) in the sky was fixed on a giant, hollow, rotating sphere. Conservatives persecuted anyone who disagreed. The three-dimensional nature of the universe later gained acceptance, but everyone assumed that it was all part of the same compact system with the sun at about the center of it all, even after Telescopes could spot galaxies outside our own. Conservatives persecuted anyone who disagreed. In the 20th Century, things started making more sense as individual stars in external galaxies were resolved and redshifts were measured to find recessional velocities of distant objects. After one final mumble in the scientific community that we may actually be at the rough center of the universe
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| - It was thought in ancient Greece that anything that wasn't a planet (wanderer, including the sun and moon) in the sky was fixed on a giant, hollow, rotating sphere. Conservatives persecuted anyone who disagreed. The three-dimensional nature of the universe later gained acceptance, but everyone assumed that it was all part of the same compact system with the sun at about the center of it all, even after Telescopes could spot galaxies outside our own. Conservatives persecuted anyone who disagreed. In the 20th Century, things started making more sense as individual stars in external galaxies were resolved and redshifts were measured to find recessional velocities of distant objects. After one final mumble in the scientific community that we may actually be at the rough center of the universe (since everything is moving away from us), the inflation models of the Big Bang theory finally settled the fact that the universe has no center. Galaxies are therefore scattered in the universe in a rather homogeneous and isotropic sense. ydMore sensible Conservsatives accept all that but Christian fundamentalism find this hard to grasp because apparently the Bible explicitly says otherwise: And on the second day the Lord sayeth, "Let there be the heavens and the stars within shall NOT be clustered with large-scale homogeneity and isotropy on a geometry conforming to global translational and rotational invariance," and so the heavens and the stars formed and arranged themselves in such a way that doth not make sense and leadeth many wise men astray by putting the observations made with their own eyes in conflict with what hath been written in this Thy book. Have I mentioned that this book is the literal word of God in this chapter? Nay? Such negligence shalt not go unpunished in the afterlife. —Genesis 15:7 And therefore they haven't really persecuted anyone who disagrees yet.
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