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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Replying to @arthur_affect
I mentioned this in another thread, another classic is the question of geo-/helio-centrism, typically revolving around Ptolemy and Copernicus, sometimes with reference to Galileo and The Church And there's kinda three equally useful answers to what goes around what
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Replying to @CuddlePotato @arthur_affect
Not sure how this fits into the discussion, but I started to really HATE how much GLEE that the writers of science shows love to point out that we aren't the center of the universe. They pile on discovery after discovery and invite us to contemplate how arrogant we've been.
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Replying to @Tuplet @CuddlePotato
It does feel like it comes from a place of unnecessary contempt for normies after a while doesn't it
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Like I'm sorry I haven't contemplated the vastness of the cosmos in a while but I have bills to pay
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I do think about the possibly-fake-deepness of this old xkcd joke pretty often (Observing the universe at this scale and staying there isn't MORE valid than any other perspective but it isn't LESS valid either)https://xkcd.com/271/
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