The movement of the earth through space is often accepted as a proven fact when, in reality, all available evidence leads to the exact opposite conclusion. In fact Steven Hawking himself admitted as much in his book A Brief History of Time just before stating that he refused to believe that the earth was at the center of the universe because he was too modest to think of his planet as being something special (Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - New York: Bantam Books, 1990 - pg. 42).
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it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe...There is, however, an alternate explanation...Friedmann's second assumption. We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption. We believe it only on grounds of modesty:
—Hawking
If you can read statements in plain English, then how is it that you keep denying that Stephen Hawking made this statement.
Sorry to jump in here but you do realise don't you that Hawking is not talking about the Earth here? He is talking about our entire Galaxy being the centre of the Universe. The Earth is just one tiny miniscule lump of grit in this gargantuan swirl of over 200 billion stars, and the Earth very much moves in this Galaxy - it rotates, orbits the Sun, and follows the Sun on a huge orbit around the Galaxy core. Sorry...
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