Death to heliocentrism

[CKS]

Say, wouldn't the universe now be Big-Bang-o-centric? Is there a word for that that scientists actually use? And how precisely can we locate the spot where the Big Bang occurred?

Every location in the universe is where the big bang occurred.

 

[Gori the Grey]

You're blowin' my mind!

The problem with the center of the balloon is that it's not a point on the surface.

I get it: there's no point on the surface of an inflated balloon that's its center. Still feels to me as though the totality of the surface points back to a center-of-the-sphere type center.

But y'all don't need to try to keep explaining it to me. This is something I've learned to be content that I can't really understand.

 

[timtofly]

First the earth was flat, and we learned it was not. Now the universe is flat until we learn that it is not.

 

[Arakhor]

The universe isn't. Gravity warps space like marbles do when they're placed on a sheet of not-quite-taut cling-film.

 

[red_elk]

People used to think the Earth is flat, like a table. But now they know it is round, like a pancake.

 

[Naskra]

None of the above. Choose your geometry, then your physics accordingly. Or vice-versa.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Pfffft! everyone knows that the earth is a trapezoid!

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Pfffft! everyone knows that the earth is a trapezoid!

Or at the very least a trap.

 

[Gori the Grey]

And we all fell for it.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

And we all fell for it.

Well, gravity is a key element of the trap, so that was to be expected.

 

[Lexicus]

But y'all don't need to try to keep explaining it to me. This is something I've learned to be content that I can't really understand.

Four-dimensional geometry is just weird. Let alone all the dimensions in string and M-theory.

 

[red_elk]

But y'all don't need to try to keep explaining it to me. This is something I've learned to be content that I can't really understand.

When I read quantum physics, I learned to abandon attempts to understand these things . Our brain can figure out things in 3-dimensional space, everything more complex is much harder to understand, but still can be researched using mathematics.

None of the above. Choose your geometry, then your physics accordingly. Or vice-versa.

What, you don't like my pancake-Earth theory??