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In a cosmological scale, we are goldfish in a bowl (Earth). We can move around inside our bowl, but we cannot move the bowl itself, and if we leave the bowl we
by 100721 4y ago
In a cosmological scale, we are goldfish in a bowl (Earth). We can move around inside our bowl, but we cannot move the bowl itself, and if we leave the bowl we won't last very long.
Thus, our vantage point is fixed.
- mxkopy 4y agoThe bowl (and the table, for that matter) move enough for useful measurements to be made wrt things inside the milky way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_in_astronomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_in_astronomy