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Undergrad Where is the center of the universe?
Ok maybe this is just too much for me to understand. I try to look at everything in its simplest form. If you were able to travel beyond the limits of the universe (if there is such a thing) and look back on it would it not have a geometric shape? If so, wouldn't that shape have a center point... -
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Graduate Time and distance relative to an expanding universe
Thank you all for helping me understand. Whenever I can't grasp a concept it nags me until I get it so thank you -
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Undergrad Where is the center of the universe?
first you say the universe spread out from a single point and then you say that point don't exist. I don't buy the balloon analogy. That would indicate that all matter is spreading out on a 2 dimensional plane. When a star goes supernova does the star all of a sudden not exist? Why is everyone... -
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Graduate Time and distance relative to an expanding universe
As I understand it, the universe is approx. 14 billion years old. Light from the farthest observed galaxies took several million or billion years to reach us. Now my question is: If it takes for example, 500 million years for light from a certain galaxy to reach us it is 500 million light years...