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Old 29-January-2004, 10:15 PM
Andreas Andreas is offline
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Originally Posted by Sam5
Look at it this way: We are in the “center” of our “sphere of visibility”, but that doesn’t mean we are in the “center” of the entire universe. It only means that our “radius of visibility” only goes so far, and the “radius of the universe” is much larger than our “radius of visibility”.
Well exactly. Space might even be infinite and we are always in the center of the visible universe, since the speed of light is constant. But we couldn't see a recession speed that is a function of merely the distance of a galaxe unless space is uniformly expanding. If there was a center, recession speed would depend also on the angle between the direction of the object and the direction of the center.
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