'You are not the centre of the universe!'
You may have heard this statement before. People say this when they want to communicate that somebody is being self obsessed. But cosmologically, can you be the exact centre of entire universe?
Does the centre of the universe actually exist?
We all know about the big bang, how our universe was born 14 Billion years ago. From a small singularity, it just exploded into what we see today.
But we often imagine the big bang incorrectly, it wasn't an 'explosion', because an explosion requires a space to explode into.
In the beginning, there was nothing,
In the end, there was everything.
The concept of space didn't make sense before the big bang. We imagine the vacuum of space that the big bang dumped all the matter, energy, stars and galaxies into but with birth of universe, the concept of space was born.
The universe is big. Mind bogglingly big. Possibly, infinite. Uncountably infinite.
We often imagine the observable universe to be spherical. If that were true, then the space would have a boundary, which it doesn't. Its infinite. Only our field of observation is spherical, because the earth is spherical. But the big bang didn't occur at a single point and that point isn't in the universe.
Imagine it this way, take a graph paper. 2 dimensionally, it is an infinite plane. The graph paper has boundaries but the paper only is a small sample representation of 1 plane of the entire 3 dimensional universe.
So, if on a cartesian graph, with regular 1mm intervals, we mark a point somewhere in the graph and take it XY(0,0) then that is the centre of origin.
The two axis X and Y originate from the 0,0. But you mark 0,0 at any point on the graph paper, in the centre or the left side bottom corner, or anywhere. The cartesian plane is infinite on both axes.
Apply this principle you used on a 2 dimensional cartesian plane to a 3 dimensional universal space.
You can choose any point of origin (0,0,0). It isn't bound by any law of science that you can't take the (0,0,0) randomly.
Therefore, you can, literally, cosmologically, mathematically, astronomically, physically, quantum mechanically and philosophically be the centre of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. You just have to assume you are the (0,0,0) and voila! You are the centre of the universe. The point of origins. The centre to everything.
But then again, even if you are the centre of the universe, remember that the world doesn't revolve around you and therefore you shouldn't be so self centered even if you are central to everything.
But we often imagine the big bang incorrectly, it wasn't an 'explosion', because an explosion requires a space to explode into.
In the beginning, there was nothing,
In the end, there was everything.
The concept of space didn't make sense before the big bang. We imagine the vacuum of space that the big bang dumped all the matter, energy, stars and galaxies into but with birth of universe, the concept of space was born.
The universe is big. Mind bogglingly big. Possibly, infinite. Uncountably infinite.
We often imagine the observable universe to be spherical. If that were true, then the space would have a boundary, which it doesn't. Its infinite. Only our field of observation is spherical, because the earth is spherical. But the big bang didn't occur at a single point and that point isn't in the universe.
Imagine it this way, take a graph paper. 2 dimensionally, it is an infinite plane. The graph paper has boundaries but the paper only is a small sample representation of 1 plane of the entire 3 dimensional universe.
So, if on a cartesian graph, with regular 1mm intervals, we mark a point somewhere in the graph and take it XY(0,0) then that is the centre of origin.
The two axis X and Y originate from the 0,0. But you mark 0,0 at any point on the graph paper, in the centre or the left side bottom corner, or anywhere. The cartesian plane is infinite on both axes.
Apply this principle you used on a 2 dimensional cartesian plane to a 3 dimensional universal space.
You can choose any point of origin (0,0,0). It isn't bound by any law of science that you can't take the (0,0,0) randomly.
Therefore, you can, literally, cosmologically, mathematically, astronomically, physically, quantum mechanically and philosophically be the centre of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE. You just have to assume you are the (0,0,0) and voila! You are the centre of the universe. The point of origins. The centre to everything.
But then again, even if you are the centre of the universe, remember that the world doesn't revolve around you and therefore you shouldn't be so self centered even if you are central to everything.
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