We don't accept models because they somehow correspond to a magical platonic "true" reality. We accept them because they predict observations to a reasonable degree of accuracy, with an acceptable parsimony of complexity.
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I have a prediction: the earth will continue revolving around the sun. Didn’t think I’d have 2 + 2 = 4 *and* earth revolves around the sun conversations in one day, but considering this is happening in the context of a woke agenda I’m not surprised.
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Okay you actually understand that there is no privileged frame of reference when deciding whether "the sun goes around the earth" or "the earth goes around the sun" right Is Einstein "woke"? Is relativity "woke"?
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Are you suggesting that because of the theory of relativity Einstein ceased to hold the understanding that the earth revolves around the sun? At best that’s silly semantics if you wish to redefine “revolve.” Einstein was not woke. You clearly are.
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It's not semantics Jesus Christ There is no privileged frame of reference, do you understand what that sentence means
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What do you believe to be Einstein's thoughts on the relations between the earth and the sun?
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I believe he understood that there was no privileged frame of reference and that one could imagine either the Earth or the Sun as a fixed point if one so chose That's literally what that means
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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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It sounds absurd to us to say that there's no difference between accelerating in a tiny space capsule that pushes you against the "floor" at 9.8 m/s^2 with a powerful rocket engine and just standing on a whole-ass planet holding us down at 9.8 m/s^2 by being a massive rock
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But Einstein's whole project with general relativity was to prove that mathematically, these are the same, and if they are mathematically equivalent then for this purpose they actually ARE the same, and see what consequences arise from that
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