The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos. By Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams. Riverhead Books.
For thousands of years, humans thought of themselves as central to the universe and created symbols and myths to make sense of the world and their special place in it. When Copernicus and Galileo shattered the view of earth as the center of the universe, we turned away from the intuitive symbols that had sustained our ancestors, and for the past four hundred years we have seen ourselves as adrift, living as an inconsequential rock in an endless expanse of space. But recent discoveries in astronomy, physics, and cosmology have uncovered an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe in profound and important ways that derive directly from science — ways that Copernicus and Galileo could never have imagined.
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