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Old 03-January-2009, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by pzkpfw View Post
If everything in the visible Univers were being attracted to a point-source (a black hole) you'd be able to detect the location of that point source by the direction of movement.
There is some evidence of that.

But also how would we detect movement if everything is moving ... but at different speeds? some galaxies would be moving away from us because they are moving faster than us ... other galaxies would be moving away from us because they are moving slower than us ...