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If nature is repetitive, and we rotate around a sun, that rotates around a galactic central point...?

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And that galactic central point rotates around a universal centre point...

At some distance fromthat universal central point, things must eventually spin faster than the theoretical limit: the speed of light.

Could this then be considered the outer limit of our universe given that relativity tells us after the speed of light time has no real meaning as we know it?

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  1. adding all the speeds taking our overall location probably doesn't come any where close to the speed of light.

    I think the sun/earth moves in the galaxy at around 40k miles per HOUR and our galaxy is somethign around 1.2? 1.0? million miles perhour.   the earths rotatoin and orbit or much less than 40k miles per hour, so its safe to say we top out at most 1.5millions miles per hour

    speed of light is 186k miles per SECOND.  

    11.16 million miles per MINUTE

    669.6 millions miles per hour.  We are almost at 1/4 of a % of the speed of light, not quite.

    Not sure on other galaxy speeds, but i'm sure none come even close to the speed of light.


  2. There exists no central point of the universe. The motion of galactic superclusters is completely random, aside from the mutual separation caused by the expansion of space. THAT motion, incidentally, DOES exceed the speed of light over the largest cosmological distances, which is not a violation of relativity since it's not real motion but rather the side-effect of changes to spacetime.

  3. No why? Does Pluto move faster than mercury? Sure not. The further objects are away from their central gravity body, the slower they travel.

    Galaxies form clusters, which orbit around either a large central galaxy or just a point in space. But now, you don't need to have a central object. There is a limit, called the Hill sphere, which means basically, if a disturbing third object is heavy or close enough, two object cannot orbit each other past the radius of the sphere.

    For galaxies, the huge distances and large masses involved mean, that often galaxies are not able to orbit around another, but instead travel on a course only influenced by gravity of all surrounding galaxies.

    Also, relativity means, that there is no central point possible - and relativity also applies to gravity.

  4. only to us.we only relize light as of now.

  5. There is no galactic central point.  

  6. false premise.  What do u mean by "repetitive"? And what could that possible have to do with having something orbit faster than gravity could possibly hold something in it's orbit in the 1st place?

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