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| From | benj <none@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Where is the center of the universe? |
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| Organization | TeraNews.com |
| Date | 2015-11-21 16:42 -0500 |
On 11/21/2015 02:27 PM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote:
> On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 3:44:11 AM UTC-8, dvus wrote:
>> On 11/20/2015 6:45 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>>> On 2/8/15 3:44 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>
>>>> Where is the center of the universe?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No Center
>>> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/nocenter.html
>>> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/infpoint.html
>>>
>>> Also see Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
>>> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
>>> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
>>> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html
>>>
>>> WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory
>>> http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
>>>
>>> WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology
>>> http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html
>>
>> I'm having a hard time with this. If there is no "center" of the
>> Universe then it would seem that it would have to be infinite in size.
>> Yet we are told the BB happened just under 13.75 light-years ago. How
>> could it be infinite if it originated a finite time ago?
>>
>> Additionally, I have read numerous articles that purport that
>> cosmologists are now able to see galaxies that formed a short time after
>> the BB. What will they see when they are able to see beyond those
>> earliest galaxies?
>>
>> Also, I constantly see diagrams supposedly of the entire Universe shaped
>> kind of like a football. (why it isn't round I don't know) Those
>> diagrams don't indicate the Universe is infinite or they would have to
>> be be infinitely big.
>>
>> Then I read about theories of the "multiverse" composed of many bubble
>> Universes surrounding ours. How can you surround an infinite Universe?
>>
>> I try to read everything I can get my hands on about this subject but I
>> still can't seem to wrap my mind around the seemingly contradictory
>> facts I see here and elsewhere. My intuition says it all must have
>> something to do with c and its limitations on what we can see but I
>> guess I would need a better understanding of the math of time dilation
>> for it to make sense.
>>
>> Heh, I'm hesitating hitting the "Send" button for fear of appearing a
>> moron but I guess if I don't ask I'll never know if indeed I *can* know.
>> So, here goes...
>>
>> --
>> dvus
>
>
>
> Here's a way to consider all the points of space-time
> over all time and space, in coordinate spaces. Now,
> for what we might have as the visible universe of the
> space, maybe that is bounded today, or unbounded,
> if not infinite. Here the difference between unbounded
> and infinite is that there's not a boundary. Then, in the
> mathematical space, we can call it unbounded or call it
> infinite. Then, you figure that quantity is conserved in
> the mathematical space, in that the universe as a mathematical
> object will use the least numerical resources that it needs.
> Furthermore, you might reason that there's just one
> continuum, like a linear continuum. Then, all three space
> dimensions (that we have as not 2-D and not 4-D, the first
> product space where the cross vector product exists, ...) fit
> a la "hologram" into 1-D: with e_1, e_2, e_3 being the fluent,
> its fluxions, and the fluent to which the fluxion would be a
> fluent, so, there's a unique normal form to encode the
> 3-D coordinate in the linear continuum (to conserve all that).
>
> The idea here is that the Universe is quite infinite, then that
> adding up the effects needs to be maintained with mathematics
> about the continuous and discrete, and, then about in infinities
> and infinitesimals in mathematics in nature (where high-energy
> physics eg highly energetic or organized systems in nature see
> these point and total effects for the local and global with us in
> the middle as thinking beings and in an anthropocentric sense).
The idea that the universe is infinite and follows your mathematical
fantasies is quite wrong. Mathematics is not more real than reality. In
fact, it isn't real at all!
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Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-03 22:40 -0800
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Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-04 13:13 -0800
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Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-05 00:04 -0800
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Re: Where is the center of the universe? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-12-05 12:14 -0800
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Re: Where is the center of the universe? pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-12-02 22:01 -0800
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