Does that mean that we are bacically in the center of the universe?
2007-11-08 08:51:21 · 8 answers · asked by mark r 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
According to the latest Big Bang concept, there is no center of the Universe. The Big Bang was not an explosion which spread out from a point. The Big Bang 'created' space. This results in the illusion that no matter where one is in the Universe, it would appear to them that they were at the center. The Universe appears to curve into itself resulting in no beginning or end points.
2007-11-08 11:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Troasa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully, the iuber... person will delete his/her answer. Your question is an excellent one, and one that I used to wonder about until I had more of a concept of the fallacy of trying to dimensionalize the Universe.
You get a star.
In addition, when I was younger I thought they might get powerful enough telescopes one day that would show a difference in the number of quasars or types of galaxies in one direction, giving us an idea of how far off center we may be. But the Universe has no center. The fact that we see essentially the same stuff in the same amounts in all directions is great evidence of this because it is highly unlikely that we would be at the center.
2007-11-08 17:42:52 · answer #2 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. "The people on the other side" see basically the same thing. They will see our past, just as we see theirs. So what you are looking at when you are looking 12 billion light years "far", are those objects as they were when they were one and a half billion years old (and much closer to us!). What is also clear is that the "people on your left" can't see "the people on your right" , because that light has no way of reaching them. The border between the visible and the invisible universe is a wall in time, not in space. It happens to be the event horizon of the big bang!
Strange, I know, but that is what it is. And it is absolutely marvelous!
2007-11-08 17:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It simply means that we are at the centre of the portion we can see.
The Sun is not the centre of the universe. It is not even at the centre of our Galaxy. And our Galaxy is not even close to the centre of the Local Group of galaxies... The Sun is merely the centre of the solar system (a very tiny thing when compared to the Galaxy)
It could very well be that the universe is infinite in all directions. However, because of the speed of light and the age of the universe, we cannot 'see' further than the light has had time to travel (and that is true in all directions). This is what gives us the impression of being in the centre.
2007-11-08 17:30:19 · answer #4 · answered by Raymond 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No.. thats just as far as we can see.. if you stand on a tower, and can only see 4 cities in either direction.. does that mean you are in the center of the earth?? NO.!!! its just as far as you can see
2007-11-08 19:05:43 · answer #5 · answered by john doe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means that is as far as we can see. The universe continues on for who knows how far but we can't see that far.
2007-11-08 16:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by jim m 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
We don't know.We can only see so much, and we don't know what lies beyond that.
2007-11-08 17:19:27 · answer #7 · answered by Vinegar Taster 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no thats a stupid question the sun is in the middle of the universe didnt you ever go to first grade science
2007-11-08 16:54:10 · answer #8 · answered by iuberpwnyou 2 · 0⤊ 9⤋