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'''Rick DeLano''' is an American film producer and writer, best known for producing and co-writing the 2014 documentary film ''The Principle'', which questions the Copernican principle and presents arguments associated with modern geocentrism. | |||
==Biography== | |||
DeLano has described himself as having worked for more than two decades as a producer, executive producer and financial consultant in the music and film industries. He has said that he left formal schooling at the age of fifteen, and that his interest in cosmology grew out of an open Internet challenge he issued offering a cash prize for direct scientific proof of the Earth's motion around the Sun. According to his own account, when no one claimed the prize he concluded that no documentary film had yet examined the Copernican principle directly, and he set out to produce one. | |||
==Work== | |||
''The Principle'' (2014) was produced by DeLano together with Robert Sungenis and directed by Katheryne Thomas. The film was narrated by actress Kate Mulgrew and included interview footage of physicists and cosmologists such as Lawrence M. Krauss, Michio Kaku and Max Tegmark. It received a limited theatrical release beginning in October 2014 through Rocky Mountain Pictures and took in a small box-office gross. | |||
The film argues for a reconsideration of the Copernican principle — the assumption that the Earth occupies no special or privileged position in the universe. Mainstream scientific and film critics rejected the film's thesis; the geocentric position it advances is regarded by the scientific community as superseded and pseudoscientific, and reviewers including those writing for ''Variety'' criticised the film's use of interview material. DeLano himself stated in interviews that the filmmakers "did not feel it was appropriate or possible for us to make the scientific case for geocentrism", saying that the evidence for it "is not there", and that the film was instead intended to raise questions about a widely held cosmological assumption. | |||
The film also drew controversy over the participation of the scientists it featured. Mulgrew said she had been misinformed about the purpose of the documentary and that Sungenis's involvement had not been disclosed to her, and several of the interviewed scientists, including Krauss and Tegmark, publicly stated that they had been interviewed without being told of the film's underlying argument and repudiated its conclusions. DeLano has disputed the characterisation that participants were deceived. | |||
==External links== | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principle ''The Principle'' at Wikipedia] | |||
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Producing the 2014 documentary The Principle |
Rick DeLano is an American film producer and writer, best known for producing and co-writing the 2014 documentary film The Principle, which questions the Copernican principle and presents arguments associated with modern geocentrism.
Biography
DeLano has described himself as having worked for more than two decades as a producer, executive producer and financial consultant in the music and film industries. He has said that he left formal schooling at the age of fifteen, and that his interest in cosmology grew out of an open Internet challenge he issued offering a cash prize for direct scientific proof of the Earth's motion around the Sun. According to his own account, when no one claimed the prize he concluded that no documentary film had yet examined the Copernican principle directly, and he set out to produce one.
Work
The Principle (2014) was produced by DeLano together with Robert Sungenis and directed by Katheryne Thomas. The film was narrated by actress Kate Mulgrew and included interview footage of physicists and cosmologists such as Lawrence M. Krauss, Michio Kaku and Max Tegmark. It received a limited theatrical release beginning in October 2014 through Rocky Mountain Pictures and took in a small box-office gross.
The film argues for a reconsideration of the Copernican principle — the assumption that the Earth occupies no special or privileged position in the universe. Mainstream scientific and film critics rejected the film's thesis; the geocentric position it advances is regarded by the scientific community as superseded and pseudoscientific, and reviewers including those writing for Variety criticised the film's use of interview material. DeLano himself stated in interviews that the filmmakers "did not feel it was appropriate or possible for us to make the scientific case for geocentrism", saying that the evidence for it "is not there", and that the film was instead intended to raise questions about a widely held cosmological assumption.
The film also drew controversy over the participation of the scientists it featured. Mulgrew said she had been misinformed about the purpose of the documentary and that Sungenis's involvement had not been disclosed to her, and several of the interviewed scientists, including Krauss and Tegmark, publicly stated that they had been interviewed without being told of the film's underlying argument and repudiated its conclusions. DeLano has disputed the characterisation that participants were deceived.
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