we once believed the earth was flat. that the sun travelled across the sky and back underground to start it's journey again in the east the following day. that we were functionally in the middle of the cosmos, with realms above and below.
discoveries were made and discoverers were persecuted. rationality persisted and our view of the universe changed. the earth remained the middle of the cosmos for a time, but now other celestial bodies like the sun, moon, planets and constellations circled us.
that's pretty much when the whole thing began accelerating. soon we let go of the notion that we were in the middle of it all. our sun became just another star. all those stars became just other suns. we found different types of celestial phenomena - red dwarves, binary stars and black holes. we theorised about point singularities and event horizons.
the revolution came in accepting that revolution itself is the primary function of quarks and electrons and swing ball and moons and planets and stars and galaxies and possibly beyond... that we all revolve around each other in ever evolving cirles and complex curves... that we are as much centre as we are edge... rambling through the universe in seemingly eclectic tragectories of ineffable chaos...
...kind of like what i'm doing now...
(gotta work - may return to this later)
