The Phenomenon of the Cosmos

Since einstein started scratching his head, iis quite legitimate to regard any place in the universe as the centre of it. All you have to do is put your finger on it, and then move that position so that it lines up with your vision. So there's no reason why we shouldn't go back, in an entirely new way, to a kind of ptolemaic theory of the universe. And so we can also go back. You see, in the nineteenth century they got very they got a legend going. The pathetic fallacy is the projection of human feelings, in ligence and emotions, upon non human objects. They couldn't see at that point that a human being

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