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i mean it's not entirely untrue. you can define the earth as the still center of everything, and that's just as mathematically valid as doing so for any other frame of reference.

special relativity is just like that very few people really have much of an intuitive understanding of it.

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Frame of reference is found in all sorts of shit other than special relativity and very easy to understand lol. Most people struggle much more with intuitively understanding the whole light must be constant and time is your variable part of it

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bro if you tell average people the earth is the center of the universe, which revolves around it, because all motion and acceleration are relative, they're gonna need a follow-up paragraph

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People literally understand it when they're looking at cars driving past each other on the road, it's a relatively human intuition thing, just need to extend that logic to earth vs the universe.

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