barrington interview

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 15 Oct 2014, 18:04 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:04:53 -0700
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Lee <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> think the observation of the limits of the human brain and the earth as a
> vantage point should be apparent to anyone considering this issue. How
> can such obvious limits simply be dismissed in a discussion of an infinite
> universe?
>

While I might concede the limits of the human brain (given sufficient
evidence to do so), it has been demonstrated (note I do *not* say "proven")
repeatedly that the vantage point does not matter - that the universe looks
the same from wherever you look at it. This is, among other things, one of
the basic assumptions of relativistic physics.
-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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