Is there a Center of the Universe?

Question

Yes/No answer, and "Why" you think so.

As seen from the first response, most will NOT use their brains- I did not ask "Where", I asked "Why" you think yes or no. Appears someone wasn't using their brain today...

Answer 1

Like the starting point of a circle, any place you pick is as good as any other. That it is harder to wrap your mind around this is not a fault of the Universe.

Also like the circle there is nothing especially mystical about this, beyond what you bring to it. To me the fact that Irish coast is infinitely long, depending on the size of your ruler is quite a lot more astounding.

Added-
In every direction the furthest you can see, looks back in time, by the amount that light can travel since the "Big Bang". This is not different from any point, at any place in the universe, the distance to the "edge" is the same, and the same in any direction.

Answer 2

YES!

There are many speculations and opinions that are base on science theory and religious truth regarding the center of the Universe, some of thiese are:
1. The Earth, they said is the center of the universe
2. The Sun, is also considered the center of the Universe
3. God is the ultimate center of the Universe.

According to some scholars, Is it possible to know where the center of the universe is and to know what is there? God's word tells us, but we must trust him and his scripture enough to believe him through his word.

“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth” (Isaiah 65:17). The following verses tell how this is done. The earth will be present in the new heavens in some form, “...the earth which he hath established for ever.” (Psa 78:69). As the present earth was cleansed by water and not destroyed, it will be cleansed by fire and again not destroyed. The cleansing will melt the elements making up the firmament. Peter 3:12, “...wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” The elements, which are located in the firmament or first heaven, including the sun, moon and stars, all melt and fall to the earth, melting it “...the earth melted” (Psalm 46:6). The present earth will then become the new earth, which is covered by the elements that were in the firmament.

Mark 13:8 - “...and there shall be earthquakes in divers places ... these are the beginnings of sorrows.” An earthquake is a sign of the beginning of sorrows or birth pangs. A baby is born right where the mother is, not on the other side of town. The new earth will also be restored right where the present earth is located, not a million miles away; again showing that the present earth is in the exact center of the universe. Rom 8:22 - “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth” awaiting the birth of the new earth. Deut. 4:11 says, “...and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven...” The fire burning to the middle of heaven shows that the earth is in the middle of heaven, firmament or universe, and not spinning in a corner, orbiting the sun.

Certainly the new earth will be in the center of the new heavens. Since the new earth will be where the present earth is, the present earth is in the center of the universe, firmament and heaven. The location is the same as it is now!

Backing this up is Ezek 5:5 which says, “Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.” A computer study determined that the sum of the distances from Jerusalem to all other increments of land areas on the earth would be smaller than from any other point on the earth's surface. The people of Israel “dwell in the midst of the land” (Ezek 38:12); or the “center of the earth” and the earth is in the center of the universe.
The final solution must be going back to the absolute truth in the King James Bible, which is openly geocentric. R.G. Elmendorf wrote in the Biblical Astronomer pamphlet, “The philosophical consequences of the geocentric/heliocentric controversy are plain enough that if the earth is not fixed on center stage of the universe, then life on earth and man himself are essentially meaningless.”

Answer 3

Yes and No.

If you accept the big bang theory and that the universe is continually expanding, then yes, most definately.
However, modern physics has found that, at the quantum level, both time and distance, and consequently dimension, are meaningless. According to some models, it even looks like everything in the universe occupies the same space, and only looks like they're in different places because of the effect of observation. It gets really cool and freaky down there!

So, yes and no, depending on what perspective you are asking from. From a normal, classical approach yes, but in reality probably not.

Answer 4

That depends on which theory of the universe's structure you want to talk about.
No - The "between your ears" answer is viable because you only perceive the existence of things, but you can never ultimately prove to yourself that anything actually exists outside of your own thoughts. So you couldn't actually ever know if your ears exist, really. (that answer probably goes best with the philosophy categorization)

Yes - On a physics level, a spherical or elliptical model of the universe after the "big bang" allows for a central point.

No - I personally like the idea of the universe being shaped like a torus. Like a donut of spacetime. There wouldn't really be a center in that case.

Answer 5

Yes there is. Everything has a center. The Earth's center is the core. The universe's center is somewhere we don't know yet, since it's mega huge. But it is bound to have one.

The theory says it all started from the big bang and it expanded into the universe. Where the big bang was, that should be the center. Just don't know where it is now.

Answer 6

Thanks for truly mind boggling question!!

I believe that yes there ought to be a center...... if it all started with the Big Bang before which space and time both were zero or no dimension, then that starting point would be the center.... however, we can never place it at this point in time because it would be continuously shifting with the expansion.... and moreover, with the relativity of space and time, it could even co-exist at different points!! It can not even be mathematically ascertained because we would not know all the data about all the objects in the universe.

All this is indeed mind boggling!!!

Answer 7

No, the precise opposite is genuine. If the universe is infinitely super in all guidelines, no factor could be precisely on the centre. the reason being, to divide an merchandise into 2 the article must be a finite length. in spite of if it particularly is not a finite length you may in no way say once you have reached the centre as you have no longer have been given a commencing or ending factor from which to degree. everywhere you start to degree from, or everywhere you end measuring, the universe nonetheless stretches out in front of you and at the back of you infinitely. in spite of in case you travelled in a at the instant line on the fee of light for 40 billion years, once you stopped the universe might nonetheless stretch out in front of you infinitely.

Answer 8

Our own solar system happens to reside in a spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy which, at its center, is comprised of a super-massive black hole, or so the current research goes.

There happens to be billions of galaxies (I don't know if it's an infinite number, infinity is much too imposing a concept if you're looking to understand or explore something).

So what's the center of all these galaxies? I would suppose it is the origin point of the Big Bang. Pick up a book on cosmology. The research and data going on is absolutely fascinating.

Answer 9

No.

If there were a center, there would be a specific reference point which would be absolute, the same to all viewpoints.

If this existed, relativity would fail, and the rules by which the universe operates would contradict themselves.

There can be no center.

Except for the ones you love, as stated so nicely by the Lady in the Well!

Answer 10

There is a center of the universe and I am it. If we can believe in existense, and if I exist, even for a limited time, then I must be the center of the universe for it follows that the universe could not exist for me without me. And that answers both questions plus the additional where.