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Alan Hirshfeld on the Hunt for Stellar Parallax – Discover Scientific Breakthroughs!

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“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

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Albert Einstein Quotes: The Power of Perspectives in Science

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“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

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Lawrence Krauss on the Cosmic Microwave Mystery – Is Earth Truly the Center?

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““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

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Edwin Powell Hubble Quote: Why a Privileged Place in the Universe is Unlikely

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“Such a condition would imply that we occupy a unique position in the universe, analogous, in a sense, to the ancient conception of a central earth. The hypothesis cannot be disproved but it is unwelcome and would be accepted only as a last resort in order to save the phenomena. […] But the unwelcome supposition of a favoured location must be avoided at all costs.”

Edwin Powell Hubble

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Stephen William Hawking Quote: Understanding Humility Before the Universe

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“Now at first sight, all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe. There is, however, an alternate explanation: the universe might look the same in every direction as seen from any other galaxy too. This, as we have seen, was Friedmann’s second assumption. We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption. We believe it only on grounds of modesty”

Stephen William Hawking

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Yoice.net Activists Reveal: The Hidden Role of Science in Power – A Provocative Quote

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“The vast majority of “anarchists” are in reality not anarchists at all, but – as soon as they are confronted with a “scientific authority” – suddenly become infantile, blue-eyed children who want to be told a story so they can put on their rose-colored glasses and continue dreaming. I can easily imagine a podcast by “anarchists” in which both the host and the guest appear in NASA T-shirts – while railing against politicians and power structures, without realizing that modern “science” – i.e., the modern priestly class – is a crucial element of power and thus of their own enslavement. Because most of the solid walls of the matrix consist of so-called “scientific dogmas, postulates, narratives, axioms, models, paradigms, fantasy constructs, theories, constructs, system laws, guiding principles, consensus formulas, imperial formulas and inviolable concepts.” Anything to which the word “science” is simply tacked on – such as political science, aerospace science, media studies, economics, social science, or law – is in reality nothing more than normative science. It has nothing to do with genuine science in its original, open-ended sense, but is instead an ideological apparatus – a close relative of propaganda and religion. This is unquestioned scientific loyalty in rebellious disguise!”

Yoice.net Aktivisten

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Arthur Eddington Quotes on the Energy Source of Stars – Fascinating Insights from 1926

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“The problem of the source of a star’s energy will be considered, by a process of exhaustion we are driven to conclude that the only possible source of a star’s energy is subatomic yet it must be confessed that the only hypothesis shows little disposition to accommodate itself to the detailed requirements of observation, and a critic might count up a large number of fatal objections.”

Arthur Eddington

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William Bathgate on the Disappointment of Aerial Views – A Fascinating Quote

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“This is the testimony of all aeronauts. The earth looks like a huge basin, the edges thereof being on a level with the eye, and the bottom of it miles under one’s feet. How disappointing to ascend for the purpose of seeing a shining planet and to come down after having seen only a huge, dark terrestrial basin! The less of ” proximity” the less like a planet.”

William Bathgate

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