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Why can't we determine the center of the universe [duplicate]
I find this baffling. If we can observe objects moving away from us and each other, than it stands to reason that we can track their paths (relative to each other and ourselves) backward to find a ...
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How far are we from the edge of the Universe? [duplicate]
Following the Big Bang the Universe continues to expand, presumably and roughly equally in all directions. It is understood that the Big Bang occurred 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago.
Is there any ...
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Are we center of universe? [duplicate]
So I just learned that CMB redshift is 1100 regardless where we look (up down left right). According to Hubble's Law that makes it around 46 billion light years away, making it the farthest matter ...
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A universal reference point [duplicate]
I would like to use a system of co-ordinates (x,y,z,t) based on a specific well known point. My original choice (the center of the universe in the big bang theory, Bigbang0), was wrong as the universe ...
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where are we in the universe as compared to the observable universe? [duplicate]
For distant galaxies to be accelerating away at equal speed in every direction, Earth would have to be at the centre of the universe. Since it is not, some region of the distant galaxies should appear ...
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Centre of the Universe [duplicate]
Why shouldn't the original singularity of the big bang happen to be the centre of the Universe? Assume that the universe is expanding isotropically with a constant speed.
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How come we see something xx light years away? [duplicate]
If we are at point A in the universe and something is say 13 billion light years away, wouldn’t we have to travel wayyyy faster than the speed of light from the Big Bang in order to turn around from ...
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Centre of the singularity that is the big bang [duplicate]
If it's true that the deeper we look into space the further back in time the light is coming from then does that mean that just behind the cosmic background radiation the entire sky is filled with an ...
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Location of the big bang [duplicate]
If the big bang happened everywhere (as I always read when searching for an answer to "where is the universe expanding from") then we would see galaxies moving not just in an expanding ...
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How the Galactic objects are moving? [duplicate]
We know that the Galaxies are moving very fast, not only the Galaxies other known and unknown objects in the universe, are moving. But when it was started where is the starting point, and how it move ...
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Do we know the exact spot where big bang took place?
If you rewind the universe back 14,7 billion years, all matter were in one spot, and then started expanding. Do we know where this is in reference to our own solar system? And is there anything there? ...
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What is the physical, geometric shape of the universe?
I'm not asking about theoretical ball, vs saddle, vs flat surface which is just a metaphor with 2D space.
It's hard to say as we see very little of it, and we see them in the past because light ...
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Distance between Earth and where The Big Bang's happened? [duplicate]
The universe is around 13.8 billion years old.
We know how fast the light is.
We also know how fast our galaxy moving around inside observable universe.
Is it possible to calculating distance between ...
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Why do we have the cosmological constant?
Since the cosmological constant is not required to explain that the universe seem to be expanding, why do we have it?
What other factors cause us to have that constant?
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Does the Sun move? [duplicate]
I'm curious; does the Sun actually move? The concept behind the question is that if you wear a shirt and you move, does the shirt actually move? The Solar System orbits around the Milky Way, but does ...
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