[arthurus]

Sort of like “wheels within wheels.” The simplest explanation that explains the observations is probably the correct one.

[BenLurkin]

[T]he documentary makes the case that the data science is discovering indicate the entire known universe is pointing directly at Earth.

Ohhhh-kayyyy

[Carl Vehse]

Lutheran astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer determined in 1676 that the speed of light was finite, not instantaneous, based on the delay in seeing a moon of Jupiter from Earth after the earth had moved in its orbit to the other side of the sun.

In 1838, another Lutheran astronomer and mathematician, Friedrich Bessel, was the first to measure the distance to a star using the parallax method, which depends on the earth moving in an orbit around the sun (rather than the sun moving around a fixed earth).

[central_va]

I took a physics class as an undergrad, one of the tests a question was simply: “Calculate the weight of the moon”

[NorthMountain]

OK.

Land a probe on a comet.

Feel free to use any assumptions you like regarding the structure of the universe.

[moovova]

I thought time and space revolved around Obama?

[dfwgator]

I thought it was revealed in 1986 when Maradona scored against England.

[Texas Eagle]

Increasingly, bizarre and unproven theories such as the mysterious “dark matter,” “dark energy,” “multiverses” and the creation of “everything from nothing,” the moviemakers claim, have been thought up to try to make the hard data fit with an underlying assumption science has accepted since the 16th century.

Wait. You mean the science on whether or not the Earth is moving through space hasn't been settled even after 500 years?

[bigbob]

See “Michaelson Morley Experiment” for more about this scientific classic.

[FamiliarFace]

I’d like to see this documentary sometime.

[sphinx]

I’d guess the movie is an exploration of the anthropic principle. Whether or not it is well done, I have no idea.

[Ken H]

So that means that our whole solar system could be one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. And one tiny atom in my fingernail could be one little tiny universe.

[Zionist Conspirator]

We inhabit, in famous cosmologist Carl Sagan’s words, “an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

If leftists truly believe this, then why are they so hepped up about solving "problems," combating "evils," and achieving "equality and social justice???"

[Defiant]

[WhiskeyX]

“The Principle” is a very bad example of pseudo-scientific hogwash. It is pseudo-scientific, because it purports to use scientific terminology as a foundation for the arguments it presents while grossly and false misrepresenting their actual meanings, definitions, and application to experimental observations. I would go so far as to characterize “The Principle” as a fraud, insofar as its purposefully endeavors to deceive its audience using the logical fallacy known as the “strawman argument.”

To provide one example, take how “The Principle” misrepresents the Earth as being at the center of the observable Universe. In fact, scientific observations do no such thing. The Copernican system describes the Earth as being in orbit around the Sun, rather than the Sun and the other planets orbiting around the Earth as erroneously insisted upon by the Roman Catholic Church in the lifetime of Copernicus. Today, we know Copernicus was correct and the Roman Catholic Church of his day was wrong, because we can directly observe how the Sun is the central body of the Solar System around which the Earth and the other planets orbit.

Given how we know by direct observation that the Earth is not located in a static position at the center of the Solar System with the Sun in orbit around the Earth, it logically follows it is not possible for the Earth to be located at the very center of the entire Universe. Such an irrational claim therefore would thereby qualify as delusional behavior.

Even if a person wanted to attempt to argue it is the Solar System and not the Earth that is located at the center of the Universe because observations always find them to be at the center of the observable Universe, such an argument and conclusion would be irrational and nonsensical. It stands to reason the speed of light dictates the observer’s location will always be and can only appear to be the center of the observable Universe no matter what area of the Universe any individual observer may be located away from the actual center of the Universe. That also assumes there ever can be an actual center of the Universe, because there are many reasons why the Universe may not have a center position at all.

Suffice it to say that anyone who believes in the Ten Commandments has just reason to learn for themselves why “The Principle” is a dishonest work because of the way in which it bears false witness.

[Organic Panic]

Michelson should have just declared the science is settled and the debate is over.

[dangus]

Long before Gallileo, using deductive power of reason based on the scriptures, Cardinal Nicolas DiCusa supposed that the stars were other suns; that the universe was so unimaginably immense that wherever you were would appear to be the center of the universe; that everything in the universe traveled in cyclical curves; and that none of these curves was a perfect circle.

If Gallileo had looked to DiCusa instead the negation of his straw-man Simplicio, he would have launched astronomy 400 years into the future; as if was, his cosmology was so filled with errors that it took centuries to crawl out from his misconceptions.

[mikrofon]

[T]he documentary makes the case that the data science is discovering
indicate the entire known universe is pointing directly at Earth

All you have to do is step back a bit to see that this is true: