Copernican principle پروز ِ کوپرنیکی parvaz-e Koperniki Fr.: principe copernicien - Physics: A basic statement that there should be no “special”
observers to explain the phenomena. The principle is based
on the discovery by Copernicus that the motion of the
heavens can be explained without the Earth being in the geometric
center of the system, so the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic assumption that
we are observing from a special position can be given up.
- Exobiology:
By extension, human beings and the Earth are not at the centre
of the → Universe
and therefore are not “special”. Life would therefore be
commonplace. Compare → anthropic principle.
See also: → Copernican model;
→ principle. |
