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May 14, 2018 · The universe, in fact, has no center. Ever since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding. But despite its name, the Big Bang wasn't an explosion that burst...
- The Shape of The Universe
- The Beginning of Infinity
- Center Yourself
The theory that describes the Big Bang is Einstein’s general theory of relativity. In it, Einstein describes gravity as the very shape of space as it bends and stretches. Near a star or planet, space is distorted; far from any celestial body, space is flat. If space is malleable, as the theory says it is, it can also be compressed or stretched. Tha...
The Big Bang is basically this in reverse. The shrunken rubber band is the Universe before it began. Something — and we still do not know what — caused the rubber band to stretch, and that stretching is our Universe expanding. It started 14 billion years ago, and it’s still going on today. So that is the right way to think about the Big Bang: It’s ...
When we combine these ideas, we are left with the astonishing conclusion that there is no unique center to the Universe or, equivalently, all locations could be called the center. Indeed, as you may have always suspected, you are entirely within your rights to think of yourself as the center of the Universe. (Go ahead, it’s a great feeling. Treat y...
- Elise Kjørstad
- "It was an explosion." The Big Bang phrase itself makes it sound like it was an explosion, says Are Raklev. But that isn't actually that accurate a description.
- "The universe is expanding into something." So it isn't the galaxies that are moving apart, but space that's expanding. We can think of it as a ball of dough with raisins.
- "The Big Bang had a center." If we imagine the Big Bang as an explosion, it's easy to think that it exploded outwards, from a center. That's how explosions work.
- "The whole universe was gathered in a tiny little point." It's true that our entire observable universe was gathered incredibly tightly together in very little space at the beginning of the Big Bang.
Oct 11, 2017 · A: The Big Bang is a really misleading name for the expanding universe that we see. We see an infinite universe with distant galaxies all rushing away from each other. The name Big Bang conveys the idea of a firecracker exploding at a time and a place — with a center. The universe doesn’t have a center, at least not one we can find.
Nov 2, 2023 · The Universe is centered on us in the sense that the amount of time that’s passed since the Big Bang, and the distances that we can observe out to, are finite.
- Ethan Siegel
Aug 5, 2021 · The Universe is centered on us in the sense that the amount of time that’s passed since the Big Bang, and the distances that we can observe out to, are finite.
What is the Big Bang? The Big Bang is a really misleading name for the expanding universe that we see. We see an infinite universe expanding into itself. The name Big Bang conveys the idea of a firecracker exploding at a time and a place - with a center. The universe doesn't have a center.
