The present day understanding of the center of the universe is the result of the observed expansion of galaxies. Generally, the further away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away. Every observer in every galaxy would perceive that his or her galaxy is at the center of an expanding universe. This observation is also responsible for the “big bang” model, which describes the beginning of the universe; run the clock of time in reverse and all the galaxies move back together.

The presently accepted model stops this expansion at the boundary of galaxies. Gravity is supposed to keep galaxies together, resisting the expansion of space. The balloon model referred by others previously has the galaxies represented by fixed pennies or buttons. Another example often given in college texts about the expansion, is the rising raisin bread model, with raisins representing galaxies that are being spread further apart due to the expansion of the expanding bread dough.

I have another model describing the expansion that allows galaxies and matter itself to expand. (According to the proposed theory this is a very slow expansion, 12 billion years to double in size at the current rate of expansion). Celestial and atomic stability is also preserved. The novel part of this model is that not only are galaxies the perceived center of the universe, any and every location becomes the perceived center of an expanding universe.

Was church dogma right all along?

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