Well, you know how science is now days. You have to assume the status quo or you get laughed at or mocked. Obviously the creators of this device knew the Earth was not the center of the universe but saying this in the scientific community would upend a lot of ideas about our past.

The truth is, we were created from hominids through genetic engineering by an advanced civilization who still watch over us. Their planet was captured by our sun and is orbiting at a highly elliptical orbit, passing through the inner solar system every 3600 years or so. The tilt of the Sun and the orbital plane of Mercury are even caused by the crazy orbit of their planet. The debris they drag along with them accounts for numerous cataclysms in our past such as the asteroid belt, the great flood, and the end of the dinosaurs. All of this is documented in the Sumerian tablets that predate the bible and for which the bible gets all of its stories.

The device isn't really a mystery when you accept our true history.