Sqrl on 02 October 2008
| dtewi said: So the Copernican Principle is the idea that Earth isn't special. So nothing wil EVER happen to Earth that doesn't happen anywhere else. We're just not special. So ANY extraordinary event will NEVER EEEVVVEEERR happen in our Solar System because we're not special. My god. Who is the moron who came up with that principle? |
The way you just stated it? That would be you =P 
A better definition would be that nothing extraordinary can happen here if it cannot happen somewhere else as well. It doesn't have to happen somewhere else first, it just can't be something that can only happen here.
We can have the most astronomically improbable event imaginable happen here and it won't break the Copernican Principle unless it could only ever happen here. If it could happen somewhere else then the principle holds.
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