Anyone out there that believes the Earth is the centre of the Universe?

Answer 1

Hi!

Our universe is so vast, that we are in awe at its size.

We know that there was a beginning, because we can 'almost see' the big bang.
This being because, we 'see' and can record, the expansion of the universe, moving forever outwards.

Obviously, for it to be expanding outwards, it had to have been smaller, at an earlier time!

In this universe, there are billions of galaxies and in each galaxy, millions upon millions of stars (suns) and millions upon millions of planets!


For those that think that Earth is the only planet that is alive:

Just because we have not found another planet like our own, or life outside of Earth, this doesn't mean that we wont in the future!


It is basically common sense that, Earth is 'not' the only planet, in the whole universe, that is occupied!!

It is the religious that, because of old 'mythical' texts, state that Earth is the only planet capable of supporting life.

Remember, the religious punished anyone with death, if you said the world was flat, not too long ago!

Our planet is in an ordinary solar system, in an ordinary galaxy, surely it is 'not' at the 'centre' of anything!

Well, apart from religious man's ego!!!

Answer 2

I know that this is probably meant to be a 'science' boots religion in the *ss kind of question ( maybe not, in which case I apologise ), but there is actually a sense in which the Universe does seem to have Earth at it's 'centre' or more accurately on it's core axis.

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An alignment in the cosmos? The red line running between the constellations Aquila and Sextans, with Earth at its center, indicates a special direction in space. The polarization of radio waves emitted by galaxy A, which lies nearly parallel to this axis, rotates more (green corkscrew) on the journey toward Earth than does the polarization of radio waves from galaxy B (blue), which lies in a nearly perpendicular direction.

"This work defies the notion that there is no up or down in space," says Borge Nodland of the University of Rochester (N.Y.). He and John P. Ralston of the University of Kansas in Lawrence describe their analysis in the April 21 Physical Review Letters.

The results of the study, if verified, could have startling consequences. One possibility is that the Big Bang gave rise to a nonuniform distribution of matter and a somewhat lopsided expansion. Alternatively, the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with some kind of exotic, unknown elementary particle might produce a preferred direction in space.

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See the URL below for the full article.

Personally ? I don't really give a hoot one way or the other, but it could well be that we are generating this holoverse from a pirate base here on Earth, it makes about as much sense as anything else I've heard in the way of 'scientific' explanations !

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Answer 3

As far as "all" scientific evidence we have, the earth, as the only planet with "actual life," is in fact the center of anything that means anything to us. No earth...then no human beings.

Nothing else matters but the way we treat each other individually here and now on the only planet that was created specifically to sustain life. Anything else is fantasy.

Do I think it is physically in the direct center of the universe? Who knows...it certainly could be the very center. No one knows because no one can measure the universe in order to determine it's center.

Answer 4

No. We are dust in the wind.
Is the universe and object with a center or a centroid? I really don't know.
In philosophical terms I'm completely sure that we are not in the center. The Universe is so immense and we are so insignificant that doesn't matter in what position we are in relation to the rest of the Universe.

Answer 5

Scientifically speaking, where is the center of infinity? For those of us that call this small blue ball home why couldn't it be the center. Why does the center of the Milky Way , or even the sun have to be the center. As I understand astronomical science all the galaxies are hurling themselves into deeper and deeper space. Earth our Home is as good a place as any to call the center... Jim

Answer 6

Well since we do not know how large the universe is, or whether it has an end at all we can not be certain. If we were looking down upon the universe, and looked directly into the center then we would know, but this question cannot be answered at the current time, and probably will never be answered.

Answer 7

No - obviously we each think WE are the centre of the universe. Earth is just our space-ship. You'd think we'd worry more about the maintenance, wouldn't you!

Answer 8

in a trivial tautological way, yes. earth is the centre of the observable universe since it's where all the observers are (that we know about). there is no evidence that it occupies a privileged position in the universe however.

Answer 9

Scientifically, there is no center, but since you asked this in Religion & Spirituality and not Astronomy & Space, it could well be argued that, yes, the Earth is the center of the Universe; more specifically, Jerusalem is the center.

Answer 10

hi Skycat, people till the sixteenth century believed that our Earth became into on the midsection of the Universe..yet after Copernicus we've self belief that Earth is in basic terms a mere planet as many different planets in the Universe..What we don't comprehend is the astronomers "placed" sunlight on the midsection of the image voltaic device in keeping with philosophical assumptions and not on challenging documents..cutting-edge nicely-general cosmologists have shown that the geocentric style may well be extra valid than we expect of.. Your buddy, poppy1