[Broker15015]

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[gnusnich]

Holy crap!

[citicroego]

[strongjannabiz]

Well, technically the belief that the Earth is unmoving at the center of the universe is a non-falsifiable hypothesis if you're willing to abandon the translational and rotational symmetries of the laws of physics.

[Jeffery]

He may well do, but Copernicus postulated the heliocentric cosmology first.

[Hervams]

Copernicus came up with it. Galileo got in trouble for spreading Copernican ideas. This should technically be "Copernicus was wrong, the Church was right"

The Church didn't persecute Copernicus and ruin his life. That was Galileo, and the entire point of this stupidity is to try to exculpate the Church from wrongdoing.

[aNoBVsUW]

yes, of course...

The Inquisition's ban on reprinting Galileo's works was lifted in 1718 when permission was granted to publish an edition of his works (excluding the condemned Dialogue) in Florence.[119] In 1741 Pope Benedict XIV authorized the publication of an edition of Galileo's complete scientific works[120] which included a mildly censored version of the Dialogue.[121] In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books, although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus remained.[122] All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the church disappeared in 1835 when these works were finally dropped from the Index.[123] These nuts are CENTURIES out of step of even the Catholic Church.

[sicheAscems]

[forumsfavoriteall]

John Paul II is not a very popular Pope among "traditional" Catholics

[datingcrew]

No. Really.

http://www.galileowaswrong.com/galileowaswrong/

South Bend, Indiana, 6 November 2010.

The mind boggles.

****, Americans are a bunch of retards. I'm pretty sure the Catholic Church wouldn't approve of this bullshit. (I'm not talking about you Guy, just the dumbasses that organized it)

[NarhozNic]

He speaks truth.

[NickGrass]

Well, that there is a fact. You can't walk around the world!

[DoctorTentonyya]

I'm the centre of the universe. When I move around the centre moves with me. FACT.

[DadaSeeva]

You're cute. But aren't you tired of fellow Americans recycling crap theories? A couple of years ago, it was creationism, then it was intelligent design and now it seems geocentrism is making a comeback. What next? Maybe we'll hear that the Earth is flat?

What makes you think I agree with any of these?

[bestformaldress23]

I blame Youtube.

SP

[RG3rGWcA]

Well, technically the belief that the Earth is unmoving at the center of the universe is a non-falsifiable hypothesis if you're willing to abandon the translational and rotational symmetries of the laws of physics.

Doesn't GR already dispense with those for arbitrary spacetimes?

[DownloadMan]

I don't know anything. I guess because relativity means that relative positions matter maybe? But I don't think the laws of physics change though things like the passage of time changes. I don't know.

Maybe because spacetime is curved and that has an effect on those symmetries?

[Moupponge]

Well religion is more popular in the US, and religion makes smart people think stupid things.

It's a long and proud history, starting with the more quirky religious nuts in Europe seeking freedom to practice their nuttery. They would be proud now if they could see what their descendants can get away with

[Mabeavyledlib]

It's a long and proud history, starting with the more quirky religious nuts in Europe seeking freedom to practice their nuttery. They would be proud now if they could see what their descendants can get away with

Hey, it beats being a prison colony.

[Uciaucrx]

I think that's also because Americans like getting worked up over crazy people more.