Is anyone familiar with the red shifts of galaxies?

Question

In an expanding universe, as galaxies move away from us, the light gets stretched out, and moves towards the red side of the color spectrum. The further out the galaxy, the more red shifted the light is. What scientists are now discovering when examing the red shifts, is that the earth must be near the center of the universe.

Maybe those religious scientist of long ago were right. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I'm no physicist, that's for sure. But I do know some things about red shift and the expansion of the universe. Enough to question the assumption of your question. You see, the universe has no center. So I guess those theologians were wrong.
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

My astronomy course was a long while back, but there are three guiding principles to astronomy regarding earth in that is is not unique, it is not the center of the universe, and any theory dependant upon the earth somehow being "special" are erraneous.

Then again, astonomers have a nasty habbit of being wrong, what with the Geocentric theory (all philosophy aside, it was actually founded upon sound scientific observations made with the capabilities at the time), Pluto, and a whole host of other things.

In otherwords, I'll give this one a "maybe" and leave it at that.

Answer 4

Milky Way Cannot Be in The Centre As It Is Also Moving Away From The Centre Right From The time Of its Formation Maybe 10 Billion Yrs ago

Answer 5

Hey, yeah, the first version of "we are the center of the universe" was shot down a few centuries ago, so it's about time we fabricated a new story so we feel special again, huh?

Sadly, everything is moving away from everything else. No matter where you are in the universe, everything around you is getting further away.

Good effort though.

Answer 6

So what your inferring is that the bible is correct, right? Well according to the bible the universe is only about 6 thousand years old. Then how do you explain that this light that's causing the red shift was produced by stars that are billions of lights years away?

Answer 7

I have not read that scientists believe we are near the center of the universe.. only that everything is moving away from us (which is just like an expanding universe would predict.. like all points on the surface of a balloon as it is inflated)

Answer 8

you really need to read up on this before you start talking about it.

Think of our universe as a balloon expanding, if we are a point on it, everything will appear to be moving away from us, with the farthest objects moving faster than the closer object.

That is the observation that was made, not that we are the center, no matter when you are in the universe, you'll APPEAR to be in the center, it doesn't mean you are.

Answer 9

That is an interesting phenomenon. While we know that the earth revolves around the sun and the sun is part of the milky way galaxy it is interesting that everything in the universe appears to be moving away from us. The Bible talks about God unrolling the Heavens like a scroll, hmm...

Answer 10

Picture a balloon with a bunch of dots on it. As the balloon is blown up each dot is moving away from every other dot. Furthermore, each dot thinks it is at the center of the balloon.

That is what is happening with the Big Bang.

One reoccurring them in science is that almost every time we think we are special - we discover that we were wrong and that we are not special at all.