Copernican principle
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In physical cosmology,the Copernican principle, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, states the Earth is not in a central, specially favoured position. More recently, the principle is generalised to the relativistic concept that humans are not privileged observers of the universe. In this sense, it is equivalent to the mediocrity principle,with significant implications in the philosophy of science.Since the 1990s, the term has been used (interchangeably with "the Copernicus method") for J. Richard Gott's Bayesian inference-based prediction of duration of ongoing events, a generalized version of the Doomsday argument.…mehr

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In physical cosmology,the Copernican principle, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, states the Earth is not in a central, specially favoured position. More recently, the principle is generalised to the relativistic concept that humans are not privileged observers of the universe. In this sense, it is equivalent to the mediocrity principle,with significant implications in the philosophy of science.Since the 1990s, the term has been used (interchangeably with "the Copernicus method") for J. Richard Gott's Bayesian inference-based prediction of duration of ongoing events, a generalized version of the Doomsday argument.