is (finite) or if it is infinite (how would we determine what's in the center)>?
2007-02-28 11:21:31 · 22 answers · asked by kevinhoegle 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not the sun dude.
Chorus:
oh you're lovely lovely
you're the center of my universe
(my universe)
a million ways
i cannot explain
you're lovely
Michelle Tumes - Lovely
2007-02-28 11:28:22 · answer #1 · answered by Maestro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is not the center of the universe and nothing in Christian teaching would say so.
If you believe in the big bang theory then there is a center somewhere because an explosion in a vacuum would go out equally in all directions so the universe would therefore have a center and the location of the explosion.
The universe is large beyond our capacity to comprehend and no one besides God knows it true size.
God is the center of the universe. Not in a locational sense but in a spirtial sense.
2007-02-28 11:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by Craig 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is conventionally taken as the center of the solar system, as the planets, planetoids, asteroids, et cetera revolve around it. But any other point could be chosen, per Special Relativity. The universe, however, has no point reasonably assignable as a center, and although it is of finite size (about 14 billion light years in radius), it has no boundaries. The usual analogy is to a bug crawling around on a balloon: the balloon is of limited size but the bug never encounters an edge. Now suppose that the balloon is inflating, and you have a somewhat realistic model of the universe.
2007-02-28 11:27:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no center of the universe. The sun is a medium-sized star on the edge of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms. It is in no way more or less special than any other star its size. Whether the universe is finite or not is still a question of debate among scientists.
2007-02-28 12:06:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In an infinite universe there is no center.
What scientist says that our sun is the center of the universe? If you are talking about the expansion and how it looks the same in all directions from us, that doesn't mean that we are the center. It is just a consequence of geometry.
2007-02-28 11:26:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The sun is the center of our solar system not the universe. The universe is believed to be finite and we are not at the center.
2007-02-28 11:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Spanish surrealist painter Salvadore Dali once said that the middle of the universe became the prepare station in Perpignan, France. Being likely the most eccentric artist, no one has truly paid interest to this yet ... perhaps, and without understanding it, Dali became proper. because he made that remark at the same time as he became himself on the prepare station and for him, or each person else, the middle of the universe is the position we are - continually. evaluate this: We word distant galaxies to pass remote from us. This remark is valid for absolutely everyone, everywhere interior the universe. The Cosmic Microwave historic past (CMB) comes from all instructions interior the sky. It means that the large Bang isn't a level in area yet a sphere round us. in case you've been a fish swiming interior the sea of a planet without continents, everywhere you're, you'd be interior the approach the sea, proper? in accordance to that, you're the middle of the universe at this very second and that suits o.k. with the concept of Relativity that announces that any remark is in effortless words relative to the spacetime body of the observer. in case you sense at relax in a spaceship that strikes very quickly previous yet another spaceship the position the pilot also sense at rests, who's to say that you're not to any extent further both stopped ... on your own body of remark?
2016-12-05 02:06:05 · answer #7 · answered by lemanski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is the center of the solar system, not the universe.
The universe is constantly expanding (due to the Big Bang), and therefore cannot have a center.
What's in the non-existent center? Black hole, black matter, planets, stars - the possibilities are endless.
Edit:
Extrapolating on the answerer two below mine, our solar system is on the very edge of the Milky Way Galaxy.
2007-02-28 11:25:05 · answer #8 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
The universe is infinite and the sun is the at the center of our solor system not the universe there is no center to the universe.
2007-02-28 11:28:53 · answer #9 · answered by Confused with Technology 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
*Cringing*
Please don't let your science teacher know about this question.
We teachers do our best to educate, but I guess some still fall through the cracks.
I know you were kidding about the whole sun being the center of the universe thing. Right?
2007-02-28 11:28:43 · answer #10 · answered by KS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋