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For the record, I originally decided to create this thread as a small test, (& challenge for me), to see if it was possible to have a value-laiden conversation about a 'left-of-centre', non-mainstream science topic in the Science Forum (and, as an attempt to give Joe a little support in presenting the topic).
We've had a few 'excursions' along the way, but I am quite heartened to see that it has run as long as it has, and what remains .. is a bunch of interesting information of which I was completely unaware, before I started out.
Thank you to everyone who has participated.
A point I'd like to emphasise is that even though one's opinion of a topic might be: 'this is sheer nonsense', it is still possible to gain a lot from exploring a topic not often considered by mainstream science, by keeping an open mind, citing relevant information/sources and exercising rational thinking.
One step further, I might even go so far as to say that the expression of one's judgements of the topic, even seems to me, to contain less value than the topic itself.
In my view, dismissal of a concept (such as the Biocentric Universe) is not at all necessary. I am happy to know that if I re-orient my thinking, I can quite happily exist within its boundaries, if I choose to, as it seems to be a perfectly valid perspective. I can also make a choice about where I'd prefer to spend most of my time, in hindsight of the experience, also - which is along the lines of the 'mainstream' Cosmological Principle.
Why is it necessary to label a mere perspective as 'nonsense' ?
After all, don't we live in universe where most things are Relative ?
Cheers
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