Has the centre of the universe been located yet?

Question

we know where the magnetic poles are and the equator location.

is it possible to pinpoint the place from which the universe originated, using science?

Answer 1

Depending upon how you look at it, either there is no center or the center is everywhere.

I know that sounds strange but on earth the universe is expanding away from us at the speed of light in every direction, so it can be said that we are at the center of the universe. Unfortunately to an observer in another part of the universe, the universe appears to be expanding away from him in all directions at the speed of light, so it can also be said that he is at the center of the universe.

You may ask where did the big bang happen? It happened here, it happened there, it happened everywhere in the universe because the three spatial dimensions were created during the big bang. There wasn't any "where" before that.

Answer 2

For all practical purposes, the center of the universe is where ever you happen to be standing.  We have reached out billions of years into the known universe in all directions, but we have no idea how much further it may go, or whether there are any form of limits at all.  The big bang theory suggest a finite point of origins for the known universe;  but, what if hundreds of billions of other big bangs, are taking place, not within 14 billion light years, but within a radius measured in trillions of light years?

We are getting better at peering into deep space.  Perhaps with the next century we will once again need to demote ourselves, to merely dewellers in a vast expanse created by our big bang, as opposed to whatever happens across an infinite expanse populated with numerous other vast systems originating from their own original singularities.

Answer 3

I am the center of the universe! Doreen is just a factory manager who produces tee-shirts for a celebrity endorsed clothing line.

Answer 4

There does not seem to be a center of the Universe.  If there were, there's no reason to believe it is anywhere in the visible universe.  The universe at the time of the big bang, must have been at least as large as the current visible universe.  It's a big place.  And, the current visible universe expanded from about the size of a proton - very small.

Answer 5

The center of the universe is not located yet by human being. because We don’t know the universe thoroughly. To locate the center of the earth any point on the equator can be pointed but that is not the center point because the center point is not on crust or outer surface .

Answer 6

Yes it has been located..........but are not telling you where it is........because as with all new holiday vacation spots every body will want to go there....................mind you that's not a bad idea

Answer 7

not yet.every time i make a tape measure long enough,we move further out.

Answer 8

I think the Center of the Universe revolves around my Ex (or at least SHE thinks so!)

Answer 9

No,I'm only 14 and i know that you cant find the center of something till you find the end to locate the center.

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Answer 10

you mean the big bang? isnt that what theyre trying to recreate in that huge particle accelorator thing?

Answer 11

There is good evidence that the earth is close to the centre of the universe.

Check out here

http://creationontheweb.com/images/pdfs/...

Answer 12

They have a good idea based off of the particles that come to the earth that originated there.

they still haven't pinpointed it yet, but they know a general area. (very general)

Answer 13

Yes and his name is Graham

Answer 14

No, but I am working on it

Answer 15

No

Answer 16

There are uncountable centres of the Universe, dependant upon which Universe you belong to, multi-dimensionally speaking.

Answer 17

People who seek the center of the Universe just don't get it. There is no center of the Universe in terms of what we commonly think of as being a center.  Everything, everywhere is the center of the Universe.  Do you not understand that the Universe has no boundaries and; thus, the singularity may also have no boundaries?

It may help to think of the singularity at the Big-Bang and the expansion of our known universe as a type of light-cone, a type of duality.  But light-cones spreading out in every 4-dimensional direction.  If the known observable universe folds back upon itself, the dual nature of the universe would suggest that something similar probably happens at the singularity.  We need to stop thinking in terms of "centers." They just don't exist, in my opinion.

What does exist, I believe, is the duality; the dual nature between the extremely large, the expansion of the universe governing by Einstein's General Relativity, and the extremely small, space close to the singularity, governed more by quantum mechanics.  If you know what your looking for, you can see hints of this kind of duality throughout the universe and nature.  I believe that "everything" that occurs within the extremely large is also occurring simultaneously within the framework of the extremely small. Thank about it.  Brian Greene, in his The Fabric Of The COSMOS, page 369: ("... string theory actually determine ... number of spatial dimensions.  ... the extra dimensions can assume ... Calabi-Yau shapes ....  ... the Calabi-Yau shape ... tacked on to every point in the usual three dimensions, you and I and everyone else ... surrounded by these little shapes. Literally, as you walk from one place to another, your body would move through all nine dimensions, rapidly and repeatedly circumnavigating the entire shape, on average making it seem as if you weren't moving through the extra six dimensions at all.

If these ideas are right, the ultramicroscipic fabric of the cosmos is embroidered with the richest of textures.")

Think about that.  Everytime that we move, we pass through all six or seven of the tiny hidden dimensions, completely, following their particular shape in space-time. Now we are not aware of this process because we are very large compared to tiny folded up extra dimensions.  But consider this: these extras dimensions are located at every point in our 4D realm. We pass through each and every dimension of the Calabi-Yau shape---what else is also within the hidden dimensions of the Calabi-Yah shape?  Maybe all of the reality of our larger expanded universe, "everything".  A model of this idea might something like: take a handlens and draw the light from the sun to a fine point on the surface of earth. What do you see? Well you see a very tiny spot on the surface of the earth that represents the sun very far away.  Now, there happens to be a sun-spot occur on the surface of the sun.  That sun-spot is also represented by the focused spot of light on the surface of the earth but its too small to be observed, but it is there, the information is there and hasn't been lost. It's a type of duality.  You see this kind of model of opposite extremes throughout our 4 dimensional reality. The biology of life itself is such a model, I feel.  Given that, we can ask: If the expanding universe has no boundaries, why should we think that the singularity does?  If the singularity doesn't have boundaries, there exist no center to the universe.

Answer 18

The center of the universe can only be realized in the 4th dimension.

For us - the center of the universe IS the universe!!!

Answer 19

When people thought the earth was flat, they would try to define the center of the earth somewhere on the surface.

If they were able to perform an experiment by measuring the circumference of a circle with a radius of 10,000 miles, they would see a problem. The circle would not have a circumference of 2*pi*r. This is because the surface of the earth is not flat. At this point we could envision a center that would not be on the surface. Then trying to find a center on the surface of the earth becomes meaningless.

It is the same for the universe. We must first understand that if the theory of the universe is like the expanding surface of a balloon, we must understand what it means to find the center of the balloon in our universe. Other dimensions.

You are likely thinking from the 3d point of view, when there are more dimensions.

We often think of other dimensions as other worlds. Quite simply another dimension can mean distance changes with distance (time changes with time).

Take a rubber yardstick that is thick at one end and tapered to thin at the other. You stretched it. At the thick end an inch is still an inch. At the other end, an inch may be a foot.

This is distance changing with distance. You now have two dimensions where you think there is one. Relativity says this is what is happening. Gravity stretches space (and time). When you look at the Andromeda Galaxy, this is happening from the edge to the center. So if the radius of that galaxy is said to be 100,000 light years, then gravity makes this measurement incorrect.

If you have had calculus, you should be familiar with position as m/s^0. speed is m/s^1. acceleration is m/s^2. The jerk is m/s^3. these are your hints to space time dimensions.

Answer 20

I thought it was found in John Malkovitch's head. ;)

Answer 21

Feck.........there was me thinking it was you..........

Answer 22

I am the centre of the universe.

Answer 23

yes, its here, there, and everywhere.

Answer 24

Gee some of the other answers are *almost* serious.  

No, the "center" of the universe has not been located.  That's because there isn't any.  It would be like trying to find the center of the SURFACE of a billard ball.  The universe is like that.

Answer 25

There is no centre of the Universe, because there are no edges, no boundary. It's like trying to find the centre of the earth's surface.

When the Universe originated, it didn't originate from a particular place, because space as such didn't even exist then. Therefore, there's no absolute centre of the Universe. Centre of the visible Universe is us, because it's observed from our point of view, but that's something I hope anyone can understand.

Answer 26

I appreciate the "no center and everywhere center" answer but I also think in order for the universe to exist as it does there has to be consciousness to "observe" it otherwise there is only  a "probability wave". I suspect that the entire universe might be a kind of consciousness itself and if that's true then the center would indeed be "everywhere and everytime".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=x_tNzeouHC4

Answer 27

I hav read ol d answers prior to mine and people r frustrated, having hulahooop head to locate d center. scientifically, it has nver been discovered and wil nver b bcoz it's beyond human intelligence....the answer to ur question is.......d center of the Universe is ur HEART! hear d beat of it and u cn locate exactly where! U r d center of WHO made d Universe.....d beginning n ending lie upon u being the center of it.

Answer 28

again since the whole of universe was compressed to zero size in the Big Bang, every where in the universe is the center of the universe. in other words THE UNIVERSE IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Answer 29

Well they don't know where the universe ends yet so they have no idea where the centre is. I'm sure that one day they will be able to figure it out. Right now though, the Big Bang or whatever is just a theory, they haven't got a way of going back through time to find out where it happened.