Caryn asks:
"...Relativity compels us all to accept Geocentricity to be an equally viable model of reality?"
Chip:
The wise perception of a viable application rests with us, since we are the ones here today, doing the observing. So, no. The fact that relativity can be applied to geocentric ideas does not mean that those ideas are equal or closer to reality than on-going scientific research. On-going is a key phrase, since ancient legends and mythology is "dead" or frozen in the closed culture of their past. One could believe in even older legends and apply modern mathematics and a relativistic frame of reference to our position within Homer's "sideron ouranon" -- (a solid inverted bowl over the earth, with sparkling ether above the "cloud-bearing" air.) Or to Hesiod, who's concepts of astronomy originated with the gentle songs of the Heliconian Muses. There is much to appreciate in myth as a symbolic representation (as Joseph Campbell pointed out.) We can also perceive that if a tree falls in a forest, and there is no one there to hear it, it indeed makes a sound that no one hears.