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Old 24-January-2004, 08:34 PM
Ian Goddard Ian Goddard is offline
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Default Re: Universe Expansion

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Originally Posted by Sam5
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Originally Posted by Ian Goddard
The counter you initially raised against my response to the poster was that any expanding finite region has a center of expansion because it has a center, which I believe I debunked.
You haven’t debunked anything, and neither you nor I know what’s beyond our visible limits or whether the universe has a “center” or not. If it is infinite, it most likely doesn’t have a center. But if it’s finite, it most likely does.

This is the very same question that confronted Newton 350 years ago, and nobody knows the answer to it.
Once again you've switched the issue, this time from "Can a finite expanding object with known edges expand without a center of expansion?" to "Does the universe have a center?" I claimed to debunk your view on the former, not any view on the latter. So you counter a straw man.
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