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WHERE IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE?

 
 
Fri 23 Dec, 2022 09:47 am
According to all current observations, there is no center to the universe. For a center point to exist, that point would have to somehow be special with respect to the universe as a whole. Although there are local irregularities, the overall structure of light is uniform, indicating that the universe is balanced and infinite, and has been since the Big Bang. There could be a center of curvature so there would be a central point to the universe from which all other points curve away. But current observations have found the universe to be flat and not curved at all. Since the universe is expanding, you would think there is a center of expansion, but this has been revealed not to be the case. The universe is expanding equally in all directions. All points in space are getting uniformly distant from all other points at the same time. The key concept is that objects aren't really flying away from each other on a universal scale. Instead, the objects are relatively fixed in space, and space itself is expanding. You might be tempted to say that the location of the Big Bang is the center of the universe. But because space itself was created by the Big Bang, the location of the Big Bang was everywhere and not at a single spot. Although the universe is constantly expanding, there is no center of expansion. Another way to define a center would be to identify some object or feature that exists only at one location, such as a qsupermassive black hole or super large nebula. But indications prove that all types of matter are randomly distributed throughout the entire cosmos. No matter how we try to define and identify it, the universe has no center. The universe is infinite and non-rotating. Averaged over the entire scale, the universe is uniform. That the universe has no center- and by extension, no edge- is consistent with the cosmological principle; the concept that no place in the universe is special. The center of the universe is a belief that lacks a coherent definition in modern astronomy. Any spot in the universe can be considered the center with equal validity. So, the center of the universe is nowhere and everywhere.
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