Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End

duh P3rf3ss3r writes "The Associated Press reports that after 200 years of speculation and investigation, the tomb of Nicolaus Copernicus has been found. Although the heliocentric concept had been suggested earlier, Copernicus is widely thought of as the father of the scientific theory of the heliocentric solar system. The positive identification was made by comparing the DNA from a skeleton's teeth with that from hairs in a book known to have belonged to Copernicus. A computer-generated facial reconstruction is said to also bear a resemblance to contemporary portraits of the scientist."

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a better title: the lost tomb of copernicus

[ed.han]

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ed

This is good news for the church

[fredrated]

Now they can properly burn him at the stake for his heresy.

Man, if Copernicus knew about this...

[davidbrit2]

...his grave would be spinning about him.

Re:From TFA:

[maglor_83]

Hmm... I expect his body was hidden in the last place they looked. It always seems to work out that way for me.

Not me. I always keep looking after I've found the body. Just in case you know?

Re:Always Jumping to Conclusions

[Chris Burke]

Imagine the stars are dots drawn on a surface of a balloon. The universe is the two-dimensional surface. As the three-dimensional balloon expands, all of the points in the "universe" appear to receding from one another. Yet there is no way to agree upon a "center".

Sure there is, the nozzle. So all we have to do is find the nozzle of the universe, where all the stuff gets in to make it expand, and that's the center.