First, are you denying the objective fact of the sun? Second, is Copernicus’ whole earth around the sun thing just a cis white guy colonially imposing his oppressive way of knowing on the world? Is heliocentrism a legitimate alternative? Does || and || make |||||?
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Indeed general relativity, with its almost trollish insistence that there is no distinction between acceleration and gravitation, depends on "radical copernicanism" (not only are we not the center of the universe, it has no center, and therefore everything is the center)
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I.e. Einstein's mental image he used to develop general relativity was asking "If an elevator accelerating upwards makes you feel heavier, and a scale in such an elevator would read as if you were heavier, and a ball you dropped would fall like it was heavier... you are heavier"
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Einstein was greatly influenced by Mach, who, when talking to someone wondering how people could ever have thought the sun goes around the earth, replied, "Yes, of course; but if the sun DID go around the earth, I wonder -- what would that have looked like?" [SPOILER: The same]
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YES. The overwhelming majority of people today laugh at people in the past believing things not because they understand the arguments either way, but because they believe differently. Most people who laugh at geocentrism don't even know the arguments for or against it.
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