> Which is it...prevalent view or orthodox? Most people are born feeling like they are
> the center of the universe, are they not? The church long held, iirc, that the earth
> was the center of the universe. Copernicus and Galileo, both scientists for their time,
> believed it was not so. Now, originally you asked if the orthodox believed it. So,
> I'd have to say no, the "orthodox" (for you, scientists) did not believe that the earth
> was the center of the universe.

Well, let me makes this very clear. Not all 'scientists' are in the same group. Many just like Galileo were/are heretics. I do associate with those and, therefore, do not put them in the same 'group'!

We 'heretics' don't care much about peer review...

To me orthodox science today is just the same basic thing as the old church! Little to no difference whatsoever...

Yes, there can be a differences between prevalent views and orthodox views, but this is out of the scope of this discussion...

Finally, yes, we are all born feeling that we are the center of our Universe, but the simple fact that we were born means that we have been temporarily physically mapped to a given set of 3D coordinates in outer space...

In other words, we temporarily exist outside of our own nuclear core to temporarily share experiences with others...

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