The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Principle” — a new film that addresses one of the most heated debates of our time: Our place in the cosmos. The film’s director, Katheryne KTEE Thomas will be in Sedona to host the film and have a Q&A discussion with the audience after all four screenings. The film will show April 10-11 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
What if everything you think you know about our Universe is wrong? Are we significant or just a cosmic accident? Does new evidence reveal the largest structures in the observable Cosmos to be aligned with Earth or are we — as Carl Sagan asserts — random and insignificant? A new documentary film “The Principle” reveals astounding new evidence impacting a question that has been debated by scientists and theologians for centuries; who are we, why are we here and do we have unique place in the cosmos? Are we simply one of millions of worlds teeming with life? Are we alone? Is there a divine architect or are we a freak cosmological accident?
Destined to become one of the most talked-about films of our time, “The Principle” dares to go where few have gone before. It questions a foundational principle in cosmology: the Copernican Principle. At its basic core, the Copernican Principle states that the Earth is not in any specially favored or central location. The question of our place in the cosmos is the greatest scientific detective story in all of history. The world has been shaped by two great assertions: one places us in the center of it all and the other one relegates us to insignificance.
Directed by Katheryne KTEE Thomas, “The Principle” is the first documentary to examine this persistent puzzle at the heart of modern science. A remarkable look at the history of cosmology and various scientific and theological questions, the film leaves viewers with new questions and new answers about our unique place in the universe and features a wide range of perspectives from modern day physicists and theologians including Dr. Michio Kaku, Max Tegmark and George Ellis and Robert A. Sungenis.
“The Principle” brings to light astonishing results from recent large-scale surveys of our universe—surveys that disclose unexpected evidence of a preferred direction in the cosmos, aligned with our supposedly insignificant Earth and leads viewers face-to-face with this most important question: What does this mean for the future of mankind? What are we discovering?