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This may be somewhat difficult to explain so try to think it through.

What if the universe did not expand outwards creating new matter beyond us (outwards of the big bang epicenter), but new matter was 'produced' in the center of the universe (hypothetical center) and pushed all exsisting matter outwards. This would make it difficult for us to recognize an expanding universe, because everything would be traveling at a relative velocity to us. when I say that I mean the exsisting universe as a whole moving relative to us, although seperate bodies may move freely through the expaning universe.

I hope this was understandable.

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as a I said before this message may be somewhat hard to get across, I am only suggesting that the universe expands by adding empty space, as most of it is. Although that this extra space is 'pushing out' the universe from the center, rather than randomly be created as it expands.

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So how would this differ observationally?

 

I think what you're describing doesn't differ much from what is currently thought to be true that there is some energy (dark energy) that is increasing the expansion, this is acting inside the universe. Even slightly more classical expansion the original energy that is the reason for the expansion had it's origins within the universe.

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ok first, I am describing dark energy in a respect but I am trying to say that that maybe the epicenter of the big bang is still causing more empty space to form which would force the Universe around it (3D) outwards. When I say differ observationaly, I measn that if this were to be correct us, and everrything around us would be forced outwards at the same rate. Not onething faster than another, although the celestial bodies do move freely, I think it is possible that they are moving outwards into 'further' space, and we do not realize it because we are moving at a mutualy relative speed.

I hope this clears things up, THis was a hard topic to comunicate.

Thanks for the input.

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There is no epicentre, or to put it another way everywhere is the epicentre, the big bang happened everywhere at the same time.

 

We observe galaxies moving away from us, all of the ones that are not local to us, ALL move away from us independent of in which direction we look.

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look, I completely agree with you, Throughout the entire conversation I have only, only been trying to imply that what if all energy was created at a theoretical center of the universe that is all I have meant to say.

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This may be somewhat difficult to explain so try to think it through.

What if the universe did not expand outwards creating new matter beyond us (outwards of the big bang epicenter), but new matter was 'produced' in the center of the universe (hypothetical center) and pushed all exsisting matter outwards. This would make it difficult for us to recognize an expanding universe, because everything would be traveling at a relative velocity to us. when I say that I mean the exsisting universe as a whole moving relative to us, although seperate bodies may move freely through the expaning universe.

I hope this was understandable.

 

It would look significantly different the way you describe, if the expansion was all happening in the same region or point, regardless of where, and regardless of whether you considered that point or region the "center".

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ok, when you think about the center this way it may help-. If you have a sphere it can be as large as you want it to be and the center of it will never change, as how This theory is concieved

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ok, when you think about the center this way it may help-. If you have a sphere it can be as large as you want it to be and the center of it will never change, as how This theory is concieved

 

But that is not what the universe is like. If the universe was JUST the surface of the sphere, that is closer. It also wouldn't alter the fact that adding space at one point would not look like what we see.

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I do not believe the universe has a given shape but, if you were to hypothetical think of the submicroscopic point were the big bang occured it is reasonable to call this the origin or 'center'.

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the basis behind the big bang theory is that all the matter in the universe was compresed into one submicroscopic location, I am merely trying to imagine this location (hypotheticaly speaking).

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Physman: Check out the 'What was there?' thread that is currently running. Klaynos and others have covered this problem of the universes location at the singularity/Big Bang and other things quite well.

 

I don't know how to provide a link to it.

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Well thank you for clearing the image up, I believe this maybe correct, but I believe the universe must have some kind of origin, and I know that the origin is everywhere after what we have disused, although this raises the question of the limits and beginnings of infinity...

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Well thank you for clearing the image up, I believe this maybe correct, but I believe the universe must have some kind of origin,

 

Of course it has an origin, but when people (at least the people I've spoken to) think about the birth of the Universe, they think of an expanding dot within some black space (usually black). Nothing is a hard thing to wrap your brain around. ;)

 

and I know that the origin is everywhere after what we have disused, although this raises the question of the limits and beginnings of infinity...

 

This is still under much debate, i.e if the Universe is truly finite or infinite, I guess there's many ways of looking at it, once we get a general shape of the Universe, those questions will start to be whittled down. If you want some links, just ask.

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I think that nothing has to be something to be comprehended, because as soon as you think of it it becomes something...

Just another of the incredible mystery's of our universe...

 

Just another one of those things that our brains can't think of. The universe has no requirement to fit inside our ability to think.

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