Can Scientists Locate the Center of the Universe?

[nihilius]

Energy or matter or whatever, after the big bang, should have been thrown out in all directions. Obviously, matter or energy traveling in opposite directions, at both sides of the centre of the explosion, had greater relative velocities than matter or energy traveling in closer paths at one side of the explosion. Has such difference been observed in astronomical observations? If that was the case, then maybe scientists could locate the centre of the universe.

 

[Pengwuino]

Energy or matter or whatever, after the big bang, should have been thrown out in all directions. Obviously, matter or energy traveling in opposite directions, at both sides of the centre of the explosion, had greater relative velocities than matter or energy traveling in closer paths at one side of the explosion. Has such difference been observed in astronomical observations? If that was the case, then maybe scientists could locate the centre of the universe.

No, because the Big Bang was not a literal explosion, it was an expansion of spacetime which acts more like the expansion of the surface of a balloon than a firey explosion.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

There is no centre to the universe
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[DrStupid]

No, because the Big Bang was not a literal explosion

We wouldn't see any differences even if it would be a literal explosion. The classical expansion of an infinite homogeneous mass distribution within a static Euclidean space leads to the same result as the relativistic expansion of an infinite flat space-time.