Sir Fred Hoyle Quote: Why No Theory Is Absolutely Right or Wrong
“Today we cannot say that the Copernican theory is ‘right’ and the Ptolemaic theory ‘wrong’ in any meaningful physical sense.”
Sir Fred Hoyle
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Fred Hoyle Quote on Perspective in the Solar System – Inspirational Insights!
0 Comments/in Fred Hoyle“we can take either the Earth or the Sun, or any other point for that matter, as the center of the solar system.”
Fred Hoyle
Albert Einstein Quote: The Truth About Science and Perspective
0 Comments/in Albert Einstein“”The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.””
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Quote on Doubt, Humility, and the True Path to Knowledge
0 Comments/in Albert Einstein“You imagine that I look back on my life’s work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.”
Albert Einstein
Lincoln Barnett Quote: Why Earth’s Motion Was Never Physically Proven!
0 Comments/in Lincoln Barnett“No physical experiment ever proved that the earth actually is in motion.”
Lincoln Barnett
Bjørn Ekeberg | cosmological physics that is not often remarked
0 Comments/in Bjørn Ekeberg“It’s perhaps worth stopping to ask why astrophysicists hypothesize dark matter to be everywhere in the universe. The answer lies in a peculiar feature of cosmological physics that is not often remarked. A crucial function of theories such as dark matter, dark energy and inflation—each in its own way tied to the big bang paradigm—is not to describe known empirical phenomena but rather to maintain the mathematical coherence of the framework itself while accounting for discrepant observations. Fundamentally, they are names for something that must exist insofar as the framework is assumed to be universally valid.”
Bjørn Ekeberg
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote: The Hard Truth About Science and the Universe!
0 Comments/in Neil deGrasse Tyson“So, what you learn when you study science in general, but astrophysics especially, is that you no longer invoke your senses to judge what makes sense, or you no longer invoke your personal philosophies to judge what should be true. The universe is what it is, and it really doesn’t care about your senses.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alan Hirshfeld on the Hunt for Stellar Parallax – Discover Scientific Breakthroughs!
0 Comments/in Alan Hirshfeld“In Newton’s day, the Ptolemaic system and the Keplerian version of the Copernican system were taught side by side in the universities of the world. But the pendulum of belief had swung irreversibly to the Copernican side. In the minds of most scientists, the heliocentric universe had become fact…Yet there remained a crucial missing element in what was otherwise a complete and compelling picture of the universe: Not one shred of indisputable observational proof existed that the Earth moved through space.Here then was the holy grail of many an astronomer. To prove that the Earth in fact revolved in a wide orbit around the Sun, the parallax of just one star – any star – had to be detected. The hunt for stellar parallax was on.”
Alan Hirshfeld
Albert Einstein Quotes: The Power of Perspectives in Science
0 Comments/in Albert Einstein“The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, “the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves,” or “the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest,” would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.”
Albert Einstein
Lawrence Krauss on the Cosmic Microwave Mystery – Is Earth Truly the Center?
0 Comments/in Lawrence Krauss““But when you look at CMB map (Cosmic Microwave Background), you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That’s crazy. We’re looking out at the whole universe. There’s no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun – the plane of the earth around the sun – the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the center of the universe. The new results are either telling us that all of science is wrong and we’re the center of the universe, or maybe the data is (s)imply incorrect, or maybe it’s telling us there’s something weird about the microwave background results and that maybe, maybe there’s something wrong with our theories on the larger scales.””
Lawrence Krauss