From The Pittsburgh Post Gazette (via the LA Times)-Humans have had quite a ride in the 500 years since Copernicus. We’ve built and tested a rational vision of the universe in which our circumstances, and those of the Earth, are unexceptional and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. We are fleeting specks on a crumb of cosmic dust, among countless other crumbs in the briefest sliver of a far bigger story.
This perspective has guided us to the innermost sanctums of matter and to the origins and nature of space and time itself — an expanding fabric that has no spatial center, in which all places are shining examples of unimportance.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2014/11/30/Caleb-Scharf-Are-humans-special/stories/201411300053
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