Re: OT: Where is the center of the universe?
- From: pv+usenet@xxxxxxxxx (PV)
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:10:10 -0000
do-not-email@xxxxxxxxxxx (nobody) writes:
Thanks for the link -- nice explanation. However, there really isn't
anything there I didn't know. Basically they are saying the space
between galaxies is getting larger. Yes. Known and accepted.
It's not as simple as that. There's widespread acceptance that dark energy
is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up. However, that doesn't
mean that 'galaxies are moving apart'. At the scale of even the millions of
light-years, gravitational affects and proper motion more than counteract
the expansion - you have to be looking at stuff VERY far away for the
expansion to swamp the other fundamental forces. For example, The Andromeda
Galaxy is on track to collide with the Milky way in 2 billion years.
That does not change the question of "Why can we see to the start of the
universe in any direction we look?" That is, how can the universe be
14.5 Billion years old, yet we can see 13.5 Billion years in any
direction (which implies a diameter of 27 Billion or more years)?
Because everywhere is the center, as we keep saying. You're not thinking
4th (or maybe 11th) dimensionally. *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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