On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jason Van Patten <[email protected]> wrote: > If there was a big bang then the point and time when and where it > occurred would be the center of the universe. However what is still in > question is if the expansion of the universe is uniform to some > mathematical formula (dubious in my opinion even if i did accept the big > bang) and if there hasn't' been any significant gravitational (or other) > folds to the space time fabric.
Perhaps, but two counterpoints: 1) If there was one big bang, who's to say there haven't been many? (What would constrain the phenomenon to only ever occur once? And by extension, if multiple have occurred, how do you choose which one to use to define the geometric "center"?) 2) Your constraint on uniformity assumes there is such a thing as "space-time" to worry about. I am of the inclination to believe that time does not exist but instead is merely a gauge by which to measure relative motion/change, and that "space" is just that--pure, empty, void-filled nothingness--to which no properties or extension can be ascribed (eg, "folding"). With these ideas at foundation expansion uniformity becomes largely determined by the symmetry of the original event--assuming a closed system. (There's always the caveat that it's not a closed system--that stuff from wherever the initial stuff came from can still interact with the stuff we see now with or without more "bang" events at some scale.) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
