Acamon@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoHear a lot about flat earthers, but folks don't seem to have a problem with heliocentrismmessage-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down11
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareHear a lot about flat earthers, but folks don't seem to have a problem with heliocentrismAcamon@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareUncle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 months agowell, to be fair, we can see the same amount of stuff in every direction without an edge. and at the rate of expatiation, we could never reach the ‘edge’ we can currently see. so we kinda are at the centre of the universe
minus-squareTakapapatapaka@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoI think the problematic part of heliocentrism is more “the sun is rotating around the earth” rather than “we are at the center of universe”
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoheliocentrism is not about the sun rotating around the earth. The heliocentric model puts the sun at the center, and everything rotating around it.
minus-squareTakapapatapaka@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoOh yes, Im dumb sorry I meant geocentrism but just used the word written above x)
well, to be fair, we can see the same amount of stuff in every direction without an edge. and at the rate of expatiation, we could never reach the ‘edge’ we can currently see. so we kinda are at the centre of the universe
I think the problematic part of heliocentrism is more “the sun is rotating around the earth” rather than “we are at the center of universe”
heliocentrism is not about the sun rotating around the earth. The heliocentric model puts the sun at the center, and everything rotating around it.
Oh yes, Im dumb sorry I meant geocentrism but just used the word written above x)