Tag: Copernican Principle

• Copernicus was wrong (maybe)

  No, I haven’t taken leave of my senses and decided the Sun moves around the Earth (but here is a pop quiz for all of you laughing at that idea – can you think of a simple experiment that would prove to a 10-year-old that the Earth moves around the Sun?). In fact the issue…

  Adrian McMenamin

  June 29, 2014

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  Astrophysics, Copernican Principle, Copernicus, Cosmological Principle, Cosmology, Dark energy, expansion of the Universe, General relativity

• The Copernican principle and the multiverse

  Thinking about this leaves my mind in a bit of a twist, but it is worth exploring. I am still reading Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos: a great book (just enough maths in the footnotes to make me feel I haven’t completely lost touch yet with…

  Adrian McMenamin

  March 25, 2012

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  Brian Greene, Copernican Principle, Cosmological constant, Parallel Universes, physical constants, Physical law, science, Steven Weinberg, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos