I have a different way of looking at it than a lot of folks. And I had the toss out the term big bang to reach this view.
But before I get into this, someone used a similar analogy. I’m going to take it in a different direction so please bear with me.
Take a sheet of paper, cover it in points with a fat marker. Do this until it’s completely covered (actually don’t, just imagine you are). Now, imagine you shrink the points. If you keep shrinking them, from the perspective of the points, the paper is getting bigger.
The big bang is the assumption that the paper is expanding. The big crunch is the idea that the paper has in the past shrunk or will shrink sometime in the future.
Essentially, I’m suggesting we throw out the paper and only concern ourselves with the points. And from that perspective, the question where is the center doesn’t make any sense, because the ‘paper’ is only the distance between points.
Serious question: Do we know how far removed from the exact center of the Big Bang we are? Is that something that be deduced?
I think that’s the point of the webb. Well not the center… I forget.
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I have a different way of looking at it than a lot of folks. And I had the toss out the term big bang to reach this view.
But before I get into this, someone used a similar analogy. I’m going to take it in a different direction so please bear with me.
Take a sheet of paper, cover it in points with a fat marker. Do this until it’s completely covered (actually don’t, just imagine you are). Now, imagine you shrink the points. If you keep shrinking them, from the perspective of the points, the paper is getting bigger.
The big bang is the assumption that the paper is expanding. The big crunch is the idea that the paper has in the past shrunk or will shrink sometime in the future.
Essentially, I’m suggesting we throw out the paper and only concern ourselves with the points. And from that perspective, the question where is the center doesn’t make any sense, because the ‘paper’ is only the distance between points.
“the exact center of the Big Bang” is not a phrase that makes sense.