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Originally posted by TheOneElectric
reply to post by mileysubet
Which turns into a falsehood the second you consider it. If the universe is truly infinite, or there is an unbalanced type of dispersion in the initial expansion, then we have a situation where the center is skewed or there is a lack of a center. In fact, I'm willing to postulate that there is no center of the Universe, as center is something relative to human science and mathematics. Finding the center of something presupposes that the item or idea can be measured, quantified, and studied in it's whole. This is furthest from the truth when it comes to the universe, and I don't think any amount of googling would or could help in this situation.
There is an underlying question in the OPs post that the OP probably doesn't realize that they ask...
Are we trying to give definition and meaning to something infinite with our limited and seemingly insignificant minds when we attempt to quantify this, that, or the other?
Originally posted by mileysubet
Umm...I am no rocket scientist, but my guess would be: the center of the universe.
Not to be harsh but most if not all your answers can be found by using a little tool we like to call "google", after all that is what most people here will use to find those answers for you.edit on 17-1-2012 by mileysubet because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LilDudeissocool
Is movement through space cause time to occur?
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
reply to post by mileysubet
There is an underlying question in the OPs post that the OP probably doesn't realize that they ask...
Are we trying to give definition and meaning to something infinite with our limited and seemingly insignificant minds when we attempt to quantify this, that, or the other?
Originally posted by truthinfact
Originally posted by LilDudeissocool
Is movement through space cause time to occur?
Yes, movement through space, Cause time to occur.
For real the big bang is just a theory. One that quite frankly has never made much sense to anyone.
Originally posted by rom12345
As far as I am aware, every point in space is the center of the multi-dimentional universe. This coordinate is non Euclidian.
Originally posted by ME BOBE
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
reply to post by mileysubet
I would like to apologize to the OP for my rashness.
I'm use to it.edit on 17-1-2012 by LilDudeissocool because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
reply to post by mileysubet
Which turns into a falsehood the second you consider it. If the universe is truly infinite, or there is an unbalanced type of dispersion in the initial expansion, then we have a situation where the center is skewed or there is a lack of a center. In fact, I'm willing to postulate that there is no center of the Universe, as center is something relative to human science and mathematics. Finding the center of something presupposes that the item or idea can be measured, quantified, and studied in it's whole. This is furthest from the truth when it comes to the universe, and I don't think any amount of googling would or could help in this situation.
There is an underlying question in the OPs post that the OP probably doesn't realize that they ask...
Are we trying to give definition and meaning to something infinite with our limited and seemingly insignificant minds when we attempt to quantify this, that, or the other?
The favorite analogy used by lecturers to simplify the concept of a universe having no center is that of the behavior of dots on the surface of an expanding balloon; for as we know, the Universe is expanding. If we imagine the dots to be galaxies, we can visualize the Universe’s expansion by observing how the dots are brought away from one another as air is slowly blown into the balloon.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by TheOneElectric
If the light from that point hasn't reached earth we cant know, that doesn't mean there is no centre, we have the term the observable universe, ie the furthest objects we can see with our current technology that changes as time goes by.
That's the standard answer. In fact the shape of the universe may also be spherical; at least Michio Kaku thinks it's probably spherical, but the sphere is so large we haven't been able to measure the curvature, so it looks pretty flat. See:
Originally posted by Maslo
There is no center of the universe in the same way that there is no center of the surface of the Earth. The universe expands everywhere equally, like a surface of an inflating baloon:
www.astro.ucla.edu...
The local geometry of the universe is determined by whether Omega is less than, equal to or greater than 1. From top to bottom: a spherical universe, a hyperbolic universe, and a flat universe.