The Sun is NOT the Center of the Solar System

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Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the solar system. And it won’t be until 2027… But this being a science channel, you might be thinking “What the heck is this guy talking about? Of course the sun is the center of the solar system. We’ve known that for more than 600 years.” Like most things in science, it’s not quite that simple.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Patreon!
1:17 What if Earth WAS at the center?
2:34 Blame Aristotle
3:55 The retrograde problem
5:54 The Church's Easter crisis
6:55 Copernicus puts us in our place
9:42 Why heliocentrism isn't *actually* right
11:07 Conclusion
11:47 Go check out Overview!
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[DineshKumar-uvxb]

Gravitational centre of solar system being outside the sun until 2027 is crazy. It will definitely be a lot of fun to explain this to future school children.

[stonedmountainunicorn]

"Our ancestors weren't stupid, ofcourse"
True, we have more flat Earthers then ever in history

[Talon]

A key distinction of science is its ability to both explain AND predict.
This separates it from pseudoscience and conspiracies like flat earth myths.

[ciscoserrano]

Something my mentor once told me is “all models are wrong but some are useful” and I found that to be extremely profound. No matter how much we know the best we can do is build models to understand reality. And they will always inch closer to Truth but never reach it. Despite that, our current models let us predict everything from how electrons will behave to the motion of planets.

[TheOtherSteel]

The loops the Sun moves in, caused by the planets and the gravity between them, is one characteristic astronomers look for to detect planets around other stars.

[d-i-ry]

"You are technically correct. The best kind of correct." 😹😹😹

[SaiceShoop]

I clicked on the video knowing the twist about the gravitational center. Happy to see people talking about this kind of thing

[Kailokel]

"We haven't had our last scientific revolution. We've continued gazing deeper into the heavens with greater and greater precision."

This should be on a t-shirt or something. So good.

[rdicam]

I already figured out. The Sun is within the earths atmosphere, right behind the moon, and the sun moves across the earth. It is a local sun

[waleedabdullahkhan]

More than 2000 years ago Aristotle said earth is sphere today SOME people say its flat. Aristotle would be sooo disappointed

Edit: ok guys my bad I should have used sphere instead of round

[shimittyshim]

*Spends 10 minutes talking about the entire history of cosmology.
*Spends only a minute talking about the subject in the title of the video.
*Doesn't actually go into detail of what a barycenter is or explain it.

This is the Youtube equivalent of a high school essay where the student didn't understand the subject so they waffled for a page and a half about an unimportant tangent.

[pwolkowicki]

I didn't expect that 1% of mass can influence the other 99%(Sun) do much. I thought that the center of Solar System is always somewhere inside the Sun.

[DaveHardy-nq]

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.

[jersey]

Minor but happy note: I love how you had the timer visual onscreen for the 15 seconds you said your thank yous! Clearly your message got out, but reassured folks you wouldn't be long. Wish that was the standard!

[sports]

Man, i love these infotainment science-based videos and YouTube channels. I fell blessed to get this content and knowledge, that too for FREE. Love from India.

[Rainho]

The way the "Our ancestors weren't stupid" is said and all the emphasis! Cold and calculated!

[josephhargrove]

Nice video. What amazes me is not the amount of refined scientific knowledge we have amassed in human history but how much of it was not known 100 years ago. When I was taking high school chemistry and physics in the 1960's, it wasn't impressed on me how much of what I was being exposed to had only been known since the 1910's, 20's and 30's. And the accumulation of scientific knowledge has only accelerated since then. Stay curious and try to drink from the fire hose.
richard
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Said of the Ephebian philosophers, but just as valid for modern scientists:
"These are men who are trying to work out how the world fits together, not by magic, not by religion, but just by inserting their brains in whatever crack they can find and trying to lever it apart."
- Terry Pratchett. Pyramids

[books]

As an atheist, thank you for using BC and for not pretending that the Church had nothing to do with the development of civilisation whilst still using their calendar. 🙏😉

[DanielKellyFolkMusic]

“The ancients weren’t dumb”, yet here we are, flat earthers and ‘do not drink’ labels on bleach.

[AlgaeEater]

Is it weird that my favorite part of these videos is the INTRO MUSIC? 0:55

It just always sounds so whimsical. A tad creepy, but in a 'lets go exploring through an old dusty house' way.