What if Earth was the center of the Universe?

We all heard that Earth is not the centre of the Universe. But what if that’s wrong? What if geocentrism was correct?

It’ll Never Happen

If Earth was the centre of the Universe, it wouldn’t happen physically. As other objects weigh more than Earth, for example, stars, clusters, galaxies, so it is not dominant. Even if its position is right at the centre, it isn’t the centre of mass. That’s because it is not the most massive, but one scenario can bring it into the centre of mass — it isn’t a significant thing like a dust rushed there temporarily.

What if that really happened?

To be like this, Earth would need to be so massive, that you’ll collapse to the ground and be flattened to a plate. But that’s still the best case you can ever think of. In that case, Earth would most likely become a black hole that consumes everything getting too close.

And don’t think Sun and the starry sky will survive, they won’t. The black hole would be at least thousands of light years wide, and almost all the stars visible to the naked eye would be consumed. That’s not fun for these crazy experiments, how about other changes if Earth managed to survive?

What if we broke physics for that?

To help Earth survive this scenario, we’ll need to break physics, which is impossible. But what if we managed to do that? Well, it won’t be good either.

First of all, if we only changed the concept of mass a bit, Sun would get very close to Earth if a day remain unchanged, that means Earth would be uninhabitably hot, as an ultra-short period planet. Also, if Venus and Mercury did orbit closer than Sun as in the geocentrism model, it would be larger than Moon in apparent size.

Also, do you notice Mercury and Venus are always close to Sun? That’s also evidence of heliocentrism for the Solar System. In fact, the geocentrism model might not be correct even in Earth’s perspective: Their position in the sky always changes, not fixed in a certain location. If we can’t see their position, we can see their brightness variates.

Therefore, if everything and every star orbited Earth, our view of the sky would change, even though Sun is further but ‘orbited’ faster.

Evidence to Disprove Geocentrism

We have a bunch of evidence for that. First, we observe the movements of objects in the sky. We can observe the phases of planets and apply it to the equation. We can observe other objects that disprove that all objects orbit around Earth.

In 1610, Galileo discovered 4 moons around Jupiter, and it completely disproves geocentrism. Also, farther observations and explorations proved nearby objects orbit Sun. Because of the correct theory, we can send probes to any planet within the Solar System and see the stars correctly.