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GEORGE DOMINIC
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Post Count: 227 Status: Offline |
anybody Know where it is.Statistically if all the data on receeding or advacing galaxies are fed into a fairly simple program the result would tell us where it is,google failure or not. Cheers.
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Former Member
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The centre of the universe is approximately 'x' light years from our current position, given that the path is empty, pure vacuum, which is in constant motion anyway, where 'x' refers to the qauntifiable denomination of statistic fractal (censored: blah blah blah) in decimal places accurate to a significant figure of pi to a power of pi c sqaured.
 I am afraid to say that our scientists are all wrong regarding this as they fail to understand the above principle, and thus humanity is once and for all, doomed. What I am trying to say here is that you should not believe anything you hear online at face value even if it comes from a credible source with suitable qaulifications and is spiked with impressive technical jargon because it is basically, mostly, and eventually, crap. Because the sum total of information available across the internet is 29% spam, 70% opinionation, and 1% fact. (I'm sorry if I ruffled the hair of anyone here holding a Doctors of Astronomy title. Won't happen again, I promise, if you convert to the religion of Frisbeetarianism, and mail me proof of that ) |
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Former Member
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General Relativity describes the universe as a 4-dimensional manifold. This does not rule out additional dimensions. Manifold means that the dimensions are not truly independent of each other. Anyway, the origin is no longer within our 3-space. A crude analogy is the surface of a spherical balloon, which was once at the origin (the centroid of the balloon) before it was blown up. There is no point of the balloon's surface that touches the origin. Similarly, no point of our 3-space touches the origin of the universe. That is the theory, anyway. The truth is likely to be even more complicated than General Relativity. But current theory does not define any special point or direction in the universe. It is all expanding.
----------------------------------------Added: In the case of the balloon's surface, if light follows the surface (curves) then an observer on the surface would see a flat 2D surface with everything rushing away from him as the balloon expanded. Obviously the observer is standing on the origin. The same illusion should work in our 3D space. Calculation should prove that we are at the center of the universe. And this same illusion should prevail no matter where we are. 2 qualifiers: First, IF our current theory of General Relativity is a good approximation of the truth. Second, local variations of density (gravity) will affect our calculation of just where the center is. But we should be close to the computed center of the universe, no matter where we are. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 1, 2005 1:11:41 PM] |
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Dreamshaper
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Current theory is that the centre is somewhere in Long Island, NY, USA.
----------------------------------------IE *I* am the centre of the universe! 
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. (Hamlet)"
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Former Member
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Dreamshaper,
IE *I* am the centre of the universe! Aaahh!!!! This I understand, my puperal 15 year old daughter says the same.... So we discoverd a 5th demention? Exept lenght, distance, hight and time we can add personallity as a 5th demention....  Nahh, leave it, I'll better go back crunching again.  |
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Former Member
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Hmmm... we need a new nanosupercomputer to verify these claims.
----------------------------------------IBM! Off you go to build another one! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 1, 2005 2:17:51 PM] |
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Former Member
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You all are wrong!!
The center of the universe happens to be where ever I am at the moment. Paws |
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Former Member
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You all are wrong!! The center of the universe happens to be where ever I am at the moment. Paws absolutly correct until your wife steps into your solar system!!! Good Day  |
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Former Member
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You all are wrong!! The center of the universe happens to be where ever I am at the moment. Paws absolutly correct until your wife steps into your solar system!!! Good Day Now Here is a fellow that in the words of Mark Twain "Knows everything that can be known" and I must admit his words above " that I know the rest." Paws |
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Former Member
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by my calculations, Canada is the center of the universe!
Biased calculator, Ripcat |
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