] [despite the advances of Copernicus, even when his theories involve ideas so hard that many of the smartest people still can't understand them] I had a little trouble with the overall sentence because you didn't make it clear whether the brackets are yours or the author's. Please post again if you need any further help. Clive I need this bracketed part to be simplified.
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