Away from the Center: the Continuing Copernican RevolutionFrom MicaAway from the Center: the Continuing Copernican Revolution a talk by Rob Knop of Quest University Canada When humankind first tried to conceptualize cosmology, the structure of the Universe as a whole, they placed the Earth at the center of their models, with everything else centered on it. The Copernican model of the Solar System was revolutionary in that it moved the Sun to the center, with Earth as just another planet orbiting it. Since then, there have been multiple reconceptualizations of our understanding of the Universe as a whole that has continued to move us away from being at the center of reality. Today, we state this as the Cosmological Principle which, colloquially, is: "We are nowhere special." MediaSlides The website "An Atlas of the Universe" was mentioned during the talk. |