what do you imagine is really in the center? I imagine we're like satellite colonies of an ant hill & maybe not as significant as we'd like to believe. Hmmmmm.....
2006-09-21 17:06:01 · 15 answers · asked by Ivyvine 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
taboobiker....would you please post a warning on your answers...I damned near choked on my water.
2006-09-21 17:22:18 · update #1
The center of the Universe is the beginning of time or the start. Think of our Universe like a round balloon. Uninflated it starts out small and as you blow into it the balloon it gets bigger and bigger but it had a starting point and that was at the center. In this case that center is 13.8 billion years old. The older the Universe gets the bigger the Universe balloon gets.
Edit update: The galaxies at the outer edge of the balloon are moving faster than the galaxies nearer to the center, just like a balloon. However, even the outer galaxies and it stars within it are not going faster or even as fast as the speed of light. Einstein said that the speed of light is absolute and nothing else can go faster. We are bound to these laws of physics and they are absolute as well.
2006-09-21 17:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by Shellback 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Universe has no center. There are countless billions of galaxies in the Universe and each one has countless billions of stars in it, around which revolve countless billions of planets and moons.
The Universe has no boundaries, either. It is limitless. It's hard for us to imagine something like that, but we have no information to dispute the theory. There are galaxies out there that were set into motion by the Big Bang and are now so far away that we will never know of their existence. I think the deepest we've been able to see into the past is about 15 billion years. I have no doubts that things happened before that. We will never know it all. Good thing, I think...
2006-09-22 00:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by christopher s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't imagine the universe having an end, so I don't believe there's a true center in the sense of the term. When you look into a telescope and when you look into a microscope, it's both amazing but you're seeing near the same things. Perhaps on a bigger level our universe expands to become the cell of another organism. It could be anything, the possibilities have the capability to drive you mad if you dwell on them, and hold them in too high of an importance to you.
2006-09-22 00:15:13 · answer #3 · answered by Answerer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's like God, or one of his associates, creates situations, trying to get the right combination of everything for a perfect world, like a sims game, (sim everything) and this one (earth) turned out to be a pretty good one, so far. Mars or Pluto might be like some of the "bad ones" that didn't last long because everything didn't jive, the atmosphere, or the cells just didn't work out and nothing of any use was formed, and all of the bad ones are just stored like old files on a hard drive- Prophecy may be given so that the "good ones" won't get all messed up over something that happens every time due to the nature of humans that are without the benefit of God or conscience.
2006-09-22 01:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by jeri b 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the Universe is expanding at a incredible velocity, faster than the speed of light, in all directions, I assume that "nothing" is in the center region.
2006-09-22 00:16:35 · answer #5 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
News to me. I thought we were the end all and the be all to the universe, the chosen civilization. Gosh dang! Lets ALL get together and throw a giant tantrum and see if that will put us higher up on creation's roster.Oh sorry, we're already doing that.. but all we have to show for it is billions of dollars spent and millions of people dead. Better try something else, quick! .
2006-09-22 00:34:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What if instead of the center we are like the suburbs of the universe?
2006-09-22 00:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it is impossible to tell where the center of the universe is.
2006-09-22 01:51:37 · answer #8 · answered by Michael M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmm...
we are probably just some random little piece of dirt in a HUUUUUUGE vast open space.
maybe the center is a huge gastric black hole or sumthin, that's slowly sucking in the rest of the universe until there's nothing left.
2006-09-22 00:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by Julie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Hindu vedic lore says that there are several thousand million Universes. We can't even imagine the size
2006-09-22 07:15:45 · answer #10 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋