Cohen and Stewart coined the term "lies to children" for this concept in their 1994 book The Collapse of Chaos, it got popularized by Terry Pratchett when he collaborated with them on The Science of Discworld in 1999 It's a good concept, only a knob would get butthurt over it https://twitter.com/olivertraldi/status/1290043101642358789 …
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But at the same time, the earth DOES go around the sun, from certain perspectives. and the stars DO go around the earth, from certain perspectives. And none of them are true but also they all can be depending on your, ahem, definitions and axioms
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