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 Copernicus overcame the overvaluation of visual evidence (of the visual over vision), but then accepted it again, as Einstein accepted his own work and then partly denied it; but one more step would lead us to «the lesser is less than the greater is greater», and one more to recognize an “«outside» not only in the beyond but also in the hereafter; this demands a physical theory not of multiple universes but «of two great parts of the universe»; in it, the human being and the earth are restored as the center of the world, as would be any concentration or logic between ««the lesser is less than the greater is greater» and «the greater is greater than the lesser is less»»; the center of the world would now be like the neck between the two horizontal blisters of the hourglass.