Did Edwin Hubble believe the world was flat? The way he's

>>18648219
>inb4 This thread has been pruned or deleted

No. He wasn't a retard.

Also that clip mentions geocentrism, not flat earth. Two different things.

>>18648219

No, this has to do with observations of the apparent red-shift of stellar bodies. Avoiding the "supposition of a unique position" is really just saying there has been no reason so far to suggest we are in a "unique position" (geocentricity, for example), and that observations everywhere else suggest homogeneity. Avoiding the assumption of uniqueness helps to avoid the distortion of future observations through the lens of preconceived notions.

>>18648251
Yes, you're right. That was silly of me. My question still stands though.

>>18648265
>Avoiding the "supposition of a unique position" is really just saying there has been no reason so far to suggest we are in a "unique position" (geocentricity, for example)

That's not what he says at all.

>and that observations everywhere else suggest homogeneity.

What other observations are you referring to here?

>Avoiding the assumption of uniqueness helps to avoid the distortion of future observations through the lens of preconceived notions.

Why would geocentricity be a preconceived notion to any scientists of his time?

>>18648219
Here's another quote from page 46:

" Therefore, in order to restore homogeneity, and to escape the horror of a unique position, the departures from uniformity, which are introduced by the recession factors, must be compensated by the second term representing effects of spatial curvature.

There seems to be no other escape."

>>18648935
You can read the whole thing here:

https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept04/Hubble/paper.pdf

>>18648219

No, you illiterate fucking retard.

Can someone explain how did Copernicus and Galileo determined how many _light years_ away different stars are?

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Of course he knew

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>>18650800

Get a better telescope, retard.

>>18650816
They didn't. Determining the distance to the stars came much later. It was only apparent they were super far away to Copernicus and Galileo. They didn't even understand the nature of light or that it traveled at a finite speed.

>>18650816

They didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax

>>18650793
Look at Plato's forms. Wow, beautiful.

>>18650873
>>18650878
Lol you globetards would believe literally anything the "astrophysicists" are feeding you.

>>18650862
Well, I'm convinced.

>>18648219
Alton Harp showed that the standard story of redshift does not fit observatipons. Changes are the standard astronomy is bs.

>>18650862
Baka ga?

>>18651158
This.

>>18652581

No one gives a shit what your retarded monkey brain thinks.

>>18651158
>says the guy who thought Galileo measured the distance to the stars

>>18651158
>>18651158
The nice things about astrophysicists is that they publish their evidence in peer-reviewed journals, and even tell you how they did their experiments so you can reproduce them.

This is opposed to flat earthers, who make up absurd claims and then run away without even trying to support them.