One of my favorite principles. =) The mediocrity principle is similar, but more general. Copernican: ~ "You are not the center of it all." Mediocrity: ~"You are not hugely different from the rest of it all."
'Still required the use of epicycles' implies Ptolemy's system used them, which it didn't. It used eccentric circles, which were an inaccurate approximation of the elliptical orbits, but were still not the concentric circles that Copernicus preferred for aesthetic reasons.
+Justin Boden Wikipedia disagrees: "In the Ptolemaic system [...] another sphere, the epicycle, is embedded inside the deferent sphere and is represented by the smaller dotted line to the right. A given planet then moves around the epicycle at the same time the epicycle moves along the path marked by the deferent." Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_system
On Wednesday my brother and I saw the complete series of Back to the Future movies and we were talking about this "gags", or repeating moments that happen in each movie (getting covered in poop, Marty saying how he felt everything was a dream...). My brother said it gave a pleasing sensation that after seeing the first ones you can somehow expect whats coming, but then I said him that maybe it was the author's idea to show how some things in history are quite repetitive. The time we are living in the present is not that different from other historic times. Here's an xkcd comic to show my point: www.xkcd.com/1592/
Crazy on point video. Thanks!
Man these videos are seriously thought provoking. Thanks so much for making these. I'm always so excited to see you've uploaded a new video!
Realizing that an idea I thought was unique to me is actually centuries old is a fitting outcome of this episode I would say :) Good one (as usual)
What idea could you have not realized was an established belief? None of the beliefs in this video are all that obscure.
One of my favorite principles. =) The mediocrity principle is similar, but more general.
Copernican: ~ "You are not the center of it all."
Mediocrity: ~"You are not hugely different from the rest of it all."
I LOVED LOVED LOVED LOVED the Donnie Darko reference!! SO AWESOME!!
That lifespan estimation thing is stupid, though.
'Still required the use of epicycles' implies Ptolemy's system used them, which it didn't. It used eccentric circles, which were an inaccurate approximation of the elliptical orbits, but were still not the concentric circles that Copernicus preferred for aesthetic reasons.
+Justin Boden Wikipedia disagrees:
"In the Ptolemaic system [...] another sphere, the epicycle, is embedded inside the deferent sphere and is represented by the smaller dotted line to the right. A given planet then moves around the epicycle at the same time the epicycle moves along the path marked by the deferent."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_system
Love the pun! XD
On Wednesday my brother and I saw the complete series of Back to the Future movies and we were talking about this "gags", or repeating moments that happen in each movie (getting covered in poop, Marty saying how he felt everything was a dream...). My brother said it gave a pleasing sensation that after seeing the first ones you can somehow expect whats coming, but then I said him that maybe it was the author's idea to show how some things in history are quite repetitive. The time we are living in the present is not that different from other historic times. Here's an xkcd comic to show my point: www.xkcd.com/1592/
mmmm that donnie darko reference tho
Speculation, conjecture, possibilities. Absolutely (ZERO) proof!
orbituary . . . no stop, please.