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Continuing Copernican RevolutionFrom MicaThe Continuing Copernican Revolution: from Heliocentricity to the Cosmological Principle Talk by Rob Knop 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, up through today's Cosmological Principle which states, colloquially, "We are nowhere special." Friday, September 5, 8AM PDT, in the Galaxy dome in Spaceport Bravo. MediaRecording of the talk (MP3 file) - Part 1 |