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luc4sdreyer | 2 years ago

>from one point in space

- We have multiple observatories on and around the planet - The Earth is moving around the Sun - The Sun is moving around the centre of the galaxy - The galaxy is moving towards the great attractor, etc

The Copernican principle states that humans, on the Earth or in the Solar System, are not privileged observers of the universe, that observations from the Earth are representative of observations from the average position in the universe. This has been tested in various ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle#Tests_of_...

A nice PBS spacetime video about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6oU3jXAho

You can also ask how do we know that the laws of physics haven't changed over time. We don't. But at some point you have to make a few basic assumptions in order to have any hope of making scientific progress.

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