copper.... uh whats that ??

THE COPPERMINE : Well Friends,this post is a junkie and i felt like writing about this because of my musings when i was forwarding a mail to one of my friend whose id is coppermine3k.Well the post,musings and the title do not have any connection so forgive me.The first thought that came to my mind on writing coppermine3k was not coppermine but,somewhere on my grey cells lay a teeny tiny name resembling copper.. oh yes i got it,copernicus!!! ... The man who conceived that earth revolves round the sun.....Prior to this people believed in all soughts of junk stuff like flat earth ....etc etc Now its time to remember him and his heliocentric theory.... Just try to imagine the concept of geocentric theory before u think of heliocentric concept,sooooo weird rite? Copernicus was a scholarly church canon who succeeded in convincing almost all later astronomers that Earth rotates on an axis and revolves about the Sun. Aristarchus, an early Greek, had proposed similar ideas, but few accepted them. The ideas expressed by Copernicus were not exactly what we believe today -- for example, Copernicus used circles moving on circles to make his system work. Elliptical orbits were not recognized as possible until a century later.Now try to imagine ... how it would be if sun revolved round the earth....the day and night time would reduce .... we would have multiple days in one day because of the light we get from other planets... and where does moon revolve ?? around earth ? sun ??then we would see sun for moon during nights !! hilarious isnt it ??anyways thanks to copernicus and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to him ( yes he was born 19 feb 1473 )