Is there a centerpoint of the universe?

Question

According to Einstine, since all motion is relative to something, it would logically follow that there must be a point in the universe that everything is relative to. Is there such a point, or was this idea disproven later on?

Answer 1

If the Universe is static then yes but it is not. and the ends of the Universe are unknown. consequently it can only be derived that he was referring one object in relation to another. This is how we measure time. True time does not exist.

Answer 2

No the universe has no centre. If you imagine yourself sitting at any point of the universe, all the other galaxies will appear to be flying away from you.
Say you are blowing up a balloon with polka dots painted on its surface. As the balloon grows larger, the dots appear to move away from one another because the rubber is getting stretched. In exactly the same way, in an expanding universe, the distance between the galaxies increases because the space-time fabric gets stretched.
Einstein didn't say all motion has to be relative to a single point. Had it been so, there would be an absolute frame of reference : the unmoving centre of the universe. And that would directly contradict Einstein, who rejected the idea of such absolute frames. All he said was that physical laws measured in different frames moving at constant velocities relative to one another are identical.
In science after Einstein, no one believed in a centre of the universe, and so there was nothing to disprove.

Answer 3

At any one moment in time there is an exact center to the universe. As expansion occurs that centerpoint moves around.
So no there is no north pole center of the universe that we can point at and say "here's the middle"

Answer 4

There is a point in the center of the universe...there has to be, because the universe is continually expanding in all directions...so it would be logical to assume that it's roughly spherical in shape and has a center or core.

Answer 5

No
there is no centerpoint of universe.
if we assume so.
centerpoint is defined for a real n well defined body ie. every particle should have a defined velocity & mass.
unless you not defined the universe.
Your centerpoint is Imagenary.
at other hand "iff" we assum universe as a stationary body there is a possiblity for the centerpoint

Answer 6

ALL the other posters have forgotten one VERY important point!

When the "BIG BANG" occurred the Universe EXPANDED "Faster than the speed of Light!" during this expansion the "MATTER " (you and me) were Dragged along for the ride, until the Universe became "Transparent" and "Light" could start it's travel across Space/Time.

While Einstein's theory of relativity forbids anything within space from travelling faster than light, it sets no limitations on how fast the fabric of space itself may expand.

SO THE UNIVERSE WE SEE IS ONLY WHAT WE CAN SEE!!!

What is beyond OUR UNIVERSAL HORIZON remains a mystery.

Einstein's Theory's can take us only to the edge of this Horizon for us to "SEE" beyond it we need to build a REALLY BIG" particle Accelerator so we can duplicate the SPACE/TIME of the beginning of our Universe. ;-)

Fodder for the Fray:
The Planck time: 10-43 seconds. After this time gravity can be considered to be a classical background in which particles and fields evolve following quantum mechanics. A region about 10-33 cm across is homogeneous and isotropic, The temperature is T=1032K.
Inflation begins. In Linde's chaotic inflation model inflation starts at the Planck time, although it could start when the temperature falls to point at which the symmetry of Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is spontaneously broken. This occurs when the temperature is around 1027 to 1028K at 10-35 seconds after the Big Bang.
Inflation ends. The time is 10-33 seconds, the temperature is again 10^27 to 10^28K as the vacuum energy density that drove inflation is converted into heat. At the end of inflation the expansion rate is so fast that the apparent age of the Universe [1/H] is only 10^35 seconds. Because of inflation, the homogeneous regions from the Planck time are at least 100 cm across, a growth by a factor greater than 10^35 since the Planck time. However, quantum fluctuations during inflation also create a pattern of low amplitude inhomogeneities with a random pattern having equal power on all scales.
Baryogenesis: a small difference between the reaction rates for matter and antimatter leads to a mix with about 100,000,001 protons for every 100,000,000 antiprotons (and 100,000,000 photons).
Universe grows and cools until 0.0001 seconds after the Big Bang with temperature about T=10^13 K. Antiprotons annihilate with protons leaving only matter, but with a very large number of photons per surviving proton and neutron.
Universe grows and cools until 1 second after the Big Bang, with temperature T=10^10 K. The weak interaction freezes out with a proton/neutron ratio of about 6. The homogeneous patch is now at least 10^19.5 cm across.
Universe grows and cools until 100 seconds after the Big Bang. The temperature is 1 billion degrees, 10^9 K. Electrons and positrons annihilate to make more photons, while protons and neutrons combine to make deuterons. Almost all of the deuterons combine to make helium. The final result is about 3/4 hydrogen, 1/4 helium by mass; deuteron/proton ratio 30 parts per million. There are about 2 billion photons per proton or neutron.
One month after the Big Bang the processes that convert the radiation field to a blackbody spectrum become slower than the expansion of the Universe, so the spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) preserves information back to this time.
Matter density equals radiation density 56,000 years after the Big Bang. The temperature is 9000 K. Dark matter inhomogeneities can start to collapse.
Protons and electrons combine to form neutral hydrogen. Universe becomes transparent. Temperature is T=3000 K, time is 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Ordinary matter can now fall into the dark matter clumps. The CMB travels freely from this time until now, so the CMB anisotropy gives a picture of the Universe at this time.
The first stars form 100-200 million years after the Big Bang, and reionize the Universe.
The first supernovae explode and spread carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, and so on up through uranium throughout the Universe.
Galaxies form as many clumps of dark matter, stars and gas merge together.
Clusters of galaxies form.
The Solar System and Sun form 4.6 billion years ago.
Now: The time is 13.7 Gyr after the Big Bang, and the temperature is T=2.725 K. The homogeneous patch is at least 10^29 cm across, which is larger than observable Universe.

Answer 7

no there is no point of universe because universe is expanding continuously and it is not expanding circularly if it expand lioke this it has a center point like circle but it is expanding not in perfection like circle

Answer 8

yes have ya ever heard of d's 2!

Answer 9

hey, for all we know there is infinite matter.. and then no.. so really no one has any idea at all.

Answer 10

Yes...ME