Interesting indeed

[Cenright]

We don't, but all the vectors of all the big bang debris vector away from THAT spot. It makes it the RELATIVE center; not the ABSOLUTE center.

[jewpinthethird]

To look into space is to look back in time since it takes millions of years for light to travel across the cosmos before it reaches Earth. Therefore, if you have a strong enough telescope, and you aimed it in the right position, you can see the early universe (I learned about that last year). Although it is still a theory, it makes since. But it is still way over my head.

As Earth keeps being pushed further and further in the ever expanding universe, it's speed is ever increasing while the center of the universe stays the same, does that make all that which is near the center of the universe older? As stated in another thread "as speed increases, time too increases".

And what if the universe keeped expanding to the point in which our solar system begins to travel at the speed of light. What then?

[Brainmaster07]

So if we had a powerful enough microscope we could see the big bang in it's begginings...

Bah! that's so annoying, you look out at the sky, but you're not looking at 'todays' sky, you could be focusing on a spot 1,000 years ago, or a 1,000,000. So you could be looking at something, that in reality isn't there, BUT YOU STILL SEE IT! AAAAHHHHHHHH.

[Cenright]

Yes. You would see a point in time that happened a few million years ago for some galaxies. Some don't even exist any more, but the absence of light wont hit us for another few million years. We are watching the past.

Our own sun could go out and we would not know it for 8 MINUTES.

[jewpinthethird]

I was just about to mention the whole sun dying. Although, if the sun were to "die" you would know before those 8 mintues because of the sudden lack of gravitational pull, Earth would be send spiraling off into space like a sling shot. Not to mention the extremely large heat discharge that would scorn half the Earth.

[Cenright]

yeah. but the sun first gets real big before it dies. That would consume us right there.

[Brainmaster07]

You know, when I was in like 2nd grade I lived in constant fear the Sun had blown up and I wouldn't know my fate for another 8 minutes .

[makaveli121212]

I was just about to mention the whole sun dying. Although, if the sun were to "die" you would know before those 8 mintues because of the sudden lack of gravitational pull, Earth would be send spiraling off into space like a sling shot. Not to mention the extremely large heat discharge that would scorn half the Earth.

WRONG...light travels faster than gravity, therefore you would not feel the lack of gravitational pull from the sun before the planet is already dark

[Cenright]

But I clarified that. And Brain. We can never see the big gang. If our galaxy was travelling away from it at a speed slower than the speed of light, it would have already reached us. How ever many lightyears away from something you are is how long it takes to it to get there. If our galaxy is going FASTER than the speed of light (I extremely doubt it), we would be running away from the light from the big bang and therefore, never see it. Then again, the we would not see ANY galaxies on that side of us either, and so it isn't true.

[Moogy]

I was just about to mention the whole sun dying. Although, if the sun were to "die" you would know before those 8 mintues because of the sudden lack of gravitational pull, Earth would be send spiraling off into space like a sling shot. Not to mention the extremely large heat discharge that would scorn half the Earth.

WRONG...light travels faster than gravity, therefore you would not feel the lack of gravitational pull from the sun before the planet is already dark

Completely wrong. I watched an interesting show on NOVA a while ago, about something called "String Theory". In the course of explaining this theory, it also disproved your point, I'm afraid.

So... yeah. Anyone else watch that show?

[Cenright]

I THINK I might have seen it, but it wouldn't remember anything well enough to know exactly. If I was shown it again, I would know if I had actually seen it. (Then again that doesn't help)

[zajac]

this is why i like the matrix so much because it really makes you think and there is no known definite answer.....

[Anticrombie0909]

This...really...has nothing to do with the Matrix.

So changing topics a bit...if the Universe truely is infinite, what happens after the Big Crunch (if you believe that theory)?

[makaveli121212]

I was just about to mention the whole sun dying. Although, if the sun were to "die" you would know before those 8 mintues because of the sudden lack of gravitational pull, Earth would be send spiraling off into space like a sling shot. Not to mention the extremely large heat discharge that would scorn half the Earth.

WRONG...light travels faster than gravity, therefore you would not feel the lack of gravitational pull from the sun before the planet is already dark

Completely wrong. I watched an interesting show on NOVA a while ago, about something called "String Theory". In the course of explaining this theory, it also disproved your point, I'm afraid.

So... yeah. Anyone else watch that show?

oh yeah absolutley i saw it...that is the most interesting flick ive seen...i actuallt mentioned string theory earlier in this thread...i dont know here, ibut if guys havent heard of it i suggest you check it out...btw the image of the Sun disappearing and the affect it would have on our plante light and gravity wise is very well illustrated

[jewpinthethird]

This...really...has nothing to do with the Matrix.

So changing topics a bit...if the Universe truely is infinite, what happens after the Big Crunch (if you believe that theory)?

That would mean that the "universe" is not infinite.