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Originally Posted by crich70
It also might be a matter of the status quo. The copernicus theory of the solar system didn't get accepted because it was right, but because the old guard who put the earth at the center died off.
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Um, no. It got accepted because it was a much easier computational tool to use to predict the positions of the planets than the old theory of "epicycles". Not more accurate - the two computational methods had similar levels of inaccuracy - but an awful lot easier to use. Ie it was simply a matter of practicality.