ABSTRACT

Modern science began with the discovery that the Earth is not the center of the Universe. Antianthropocentrism has been incorporated into scientific mentality, and none would suggest that the Earth, nor the Solar System, nor the Milky Way, nor our local group of galaxies occupies any specially favored position in the cosmos. Rather, our perceptions run counter. Modern cosmology hypothesizes that all positions in the Universe are equivalent, when smeared out over 108 to 109 light years. It also appears that the Universe is spherically symmetric, essentially isotropic in composition about every point. Such is the Cosmological Principle.