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time to think (lemm.ee)
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Turns out, no; every point is expanding away from every other point, so every point sees itself as the center of expansion.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That could sort of explain why it's inherently impossible to determine the center - but that doesn't rule out the existence of a geometric center of the universe, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Kiiiind of. I suppose we haven't definitively ruled out a geometric centre, but it runs up against Occam's Razor in a really big way. A centre of the universe would require some kind of boundary or edge to the universe, and the physical dynamics of how that would even work are very much non-trivial.

    Generally the universe is thought to either loop back on itself like the surface of a globe, or extend infinitely in every direction.

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