The Copernican revolution wasn't as clear-cut as it seems in hindsight. Great essay argues that it was reasonable to reject heliocentrism at the time:https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/JAAHjm4iZ2j5Exfo2/the-copernican-revolution-from-the-inside …
The post explicitly says the average person is unlikely to know general covariance. So you're criticising an imaginary post. Please read the post carefully & understand what it says before criticising it. Tim Gowers' very careful comments are a good model.
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I'm not sure who this is directed at, but I didn't assert that average people would know what it is or should. I just thought the implication you drew from it wasn't just wrong for conceptual reasons but also physical ones.
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@RamiroHumSah wrote: "The note is a very bad joke, it is exaggeratedly pedantic to expect the average person to explain the concept of general covariance by answering such a simple question." Aside from being insulting, it also badly misreads what I very plainly wrote. - 1 more reply
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