center of the universe
rallain | May 20, 2010I am going to try to answer another Ask a ScienceBlogger question. This one is from George P. Burdell. He asks:
"If the universe is expanding from the big bang, has anyone tried to reverse plot the galaxies to figure out the exact point where the big bang occurred?"
Actually, he asked two questions, but I am just answering the first. Second, let me note that I am not really a cosmologist - so I am just making up answer.
In short, the answer is that everywhere is the center of the universe. Think of it this way. Imagine that there are only two dimensions and these two dimension are the…