What is the center of the universe?

Question

or is the universe just a portion of a greater realm?

Answer 1

I have two answers to your question.

The center of the physical universe is the point from which the big bang occured. That is the point from which all the matter in the universe is moving away.

The center of the perceptual universe is your mind. That is the point from which the rest of the universe begins.

Answer 2

Nobody can tell you exactly where we're placed in the universe, and I'll tell you why:

We only know about what we can see. There's just no other way of telling what's out there other than light (and perhaps gravity)... nothing else reaches us that we can sense and distinguish. And light doesn't travel infinitely fast, it travels (logically enough) at the speed of light.

So if we give a particular photon an amount of time equal to the entire history of the universe (which is currently thought to be about 14 billion years), that means we only know about what's happening within 14 billion light-years of us in any direction. Which you might expect to be more than enough space.

But it's not.

The universe is bigger than 28 billion light-years across. Some theories hold that it's more than 150 billion light-years in diameter. So we can really only see a small section of what's out there.

Now, I can guess what you're thinking... how can the universe be bigger than the distance light can travel if nothing can travel faster than light? Go ahead. It's a normal question. There's a simple answer to this: nothing -can- travel faster than light. Which is to say that when space itself is expanding, it can make things seem to be moving much faster or slower than they really are.

This is why EVERYTHING that's far away is red-shifted when we look it - space is stretching. And it's carrying things like photons with it, so it's like a fish swimming in a current.

To make matters worse, there may be a fourth-dimensional curvature to the universe. Current experiments suggest flatness or close to it... but if it's not flat then it possible that (like on a circle or a sphere) if you travel far enough in one direction then you end up back where you started. Or in other words that no 'edges' even exist in the universe.

So nobody really knows exactly where we are. Or where a 'center' might be (if that's even necessarily a proper term). Just that different stuff seems to be in all directions when we look, so we don't seem to be closer than 14 billion light years to an edge (if there is one). That's about all anyone can say for sure!

Answer 3

The center of your universe is your center of gravity.
The center of the universe is is center of gravity

Universe a greater realm.
Since the volume of the universe would be proportional to its density. Imagine a glass of water as the universe, the water takes more space evaporated but as the same mass(one universe=one glass).So the universe can be bigger or smaller but at one instant its a fix size. Imagine a 0 volume universe that would mean all dense mater as transformed to a very dense infinity of possibilities but with no volume(no consequences).As these possibilities are brought to reality the volume increases and is divided to reality(dense) like 0=[phone](zero was all possibilities). Its those forces+1000-1000(poles) that we perceive in reference to the 0 that was. What we perceive as dense is a bunch of forces tangled together created by the zero. So i would argue based on this that its not always the same size but i believe there is limits and the size usually is similar to our present universe.
EX1 10-10=0(universe) 1M-1M=0( bigger universe)
1 big number-1 small number=our universe...the center is the center of the two numbers.

Also time would be very closely tied to movement of those forces(faster or slower).You perceive time at a certain speed because your moving with the earth at a certain speed that was propelled with a force.Time can go faster or slower on earth also.You can cook faster or slower by speeding up the movement of electrons with a force called electricity.

Note :ONE universe come from 0.

Answer 4

Chocoalate

Answer 5

You are, if you observe the galaxies, they're all accelerating away from you..... (that is if you don't look at Andromeda, that's on a collision course with us).

Answer 6

My ex husbands belly button!! - damn narcissist ;-)

Answer 7

OUR UNIVERSE HAS ONLY ONE CENTER AND THAT IS GOD. AS FOR A PHYSICAL CENTER IT DOES NOT EXIST.

Answer 8

God Knows.

Answer 9

Everywhere and everything. There is no center and no periphery. Welcome to Giordano Bruno.

Answer 10

I don't advertise my address.