พระพุทธเจ้ารู้แจ้ง จักรวาล 2,500 ปี ก่อนนักวิทยาศาสตร์

Summary

Europe’s inherited position was that the Earth sat at the centre of the universe, and it was enforced by religious authority.

The Pali Canon speaks of world systems beyond counting, which sits close to the modern idea of many universes.

Giordano Bruno, executed in Italy for something similar, shows what that line of thought cost on the other side of the world.

Key points

1. 01

   The passages are genuinely there

   This is not a retrofit; the statements predate modern science.

2. 02

   Resemblance is not prediction

   The teaching was not attempting cosmology, and reading it that way reads past the text.

3. 03

   The European context is what gives it meaning

   The interesting part is not who was right but that one side permitted the question and the other did not.

4. 04

   Bruno was executed for a thought

   The price of proposing other worlds, at that moment, was his life.