^ not quite, i was going more for astrophysics way back when
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Originally Posted by stateofkane
I understand 2d vs 3d and 4d, and perception, but how the sun plays into it is ridiculous.
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the sun is just an example. anything with mass imprints space-time, "bending" it in such a way that the movement of nearby objects is influenced. the only reason we perceive gravity as some magical, invisible force is because our perception is constrained to length, width and height, and the fabric bends in some other dimension.
i'm not sure what you think i meant the sun was playing into. my main point was that any point on a plane with a closed curvature can be said to be at the center of that plane, so it's just as true for an earthling to say he is at the center of the universe as it is for any other being, at any planet or point in space, to say he is at the center.