Copernican principle

Then there's the evidence that more directly contradicts the Copernican principle: the genetic code.

Then he extends the Copernican principle to time.

The Copernican principle has guided us ever since.

There's a third proposal, one which explains the unity of life's genetic code without violating the Copernican principle.

To match observations we would have to be very close to the centre of this void, immediately contradicting the Copernican principle.

It sounds like the Copernican principle.

The Copernican principle represents the irreducible philosophical assumption needed to justify this, when combined with the observations.

Recent and planned tests relevant to the cosmological and copernican principles include:

Before the term Copernican principle was even coined, the Earth was repeatedly shown not to have any special location in the universe.

Even though the Copernican principle tells us to just yawn, it would be interesting to meet the Kling ons.

And now we hold to the Copernican principle: We believe that we aren't in any unique place in space or time.

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It is a heuristic in the vein of the Copernican principle, and is sometimes used as a philosophical statement about the place of humanity.

Dr. Gott's scheme is based on the "Copernican principle," which assumes that the odds are overwhelmingly against any particular place or time being "special."

Dr. Gott's theory is based on the Copernican principle, which can be boiled down to his oft-repeated mantra, "you're not special."

The Copernican principle has never been proven, and in the most general sense cannot be proven, but it is implicit in many modern theories of physics.

The Copernican principle, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, states that the Earth is not in a central, specially favored position.

This philosophical stance opposes not only the mediocrity principle, but also the wider Copernican principle, which suggests there is no privileged location in the universe.

He asks us to adopt a generalized Copernican principle, something I've described elsewhere as the Principle of Mediocrity.

He was an early Copernican principle, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching.

This was a complete system of astronomy on Copernican principles, and included numerous tables; it followed Seth Ward in formulating Kepler's second law.

Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects (1993, Nature vol 363, p315) This was Gott's original description of the Doomsday argument.

Since the Copernican principle depends on the assumption that there is nothing special about existing humans in any statistical overview, the odds are strongly against the third alternative coming to pass.

A fundamental difference between Newton's cosmology and those preceding it was the Copernican principle that the bodies on earth obey the same physical laws as all the celestial bodies.

J. Richard Gott has estimated, based on his Copernican principle, that the human race could survive for another 7.8 million years, but it isn't likely to ever colonize other planets.