{"id":3565,"date":"2018-01-15T03:47:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2018-01-15T03:47:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:47:02","slug":"the-cosmological-axis-of-evil-not-nearly-as-awesome-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3565","title":{"rendered":"The Cosmological Axis of Evil: not nearly as awesome as it sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from James:<\/strong><br \/>\nHas there been any discussion on here about what&#8217;s known as the cosmological &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; which shows that earth&#8217;s ecliptic plane is aligned at the center of the universe and therefore contradicts the Copernican Principle? Isn&#8217;t this phenomenon well documented by scientific data?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nNot until now, but I didn&#8217;t have to look far to get the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology)\">general idea<\/a>.  Some data suggests that there is something very special about the way the Solar System is aligned, perhaps even put-there-deliberately level special.  That data is suspect, and ambiguous even if accurate.  So&#8230;documented, yes, established, no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from James: Has there been any discussion on here about what&#8217;s known as the cosmological &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; which shows that earth&#8217;s ecliptic plane is aligned at the center of the universe and therefore contradicts the Copernican Principle? Isn&#8217;t this phenomenon well documented by scientific data? Answer by SmartLX: Not until now, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cosmological Axis of Evil: not nearly as awesome as it sounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[561,6],"tags":[750,748,749],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-2","category-text","tag-cosmic-background-radiation","tag-cosmological-axis-of-evil","tag-microwave-sky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-Vv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}