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davepamn

M¢25 Funded By Mahalo ? | August 13, 2009 01:44 PM

What is the central plane of the Universe?

Is the central plane of the Universe a two dimension map of the cosmic microwave background radiation? What does the central plane prove? The Big Bang?

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badaspie

August 14, 2009 01:00 PM

Because the observable universe is only a tiny fraction of the entire universe, we have no way of knowing where we are in relation to its center, or whether the universe even has a "central" plane around which it is symmetrical. The cosmic microwave background provides no clues, since it is nearly uniform in all directions. As far as can be determined, the universe has no center; all parts of it are expanding at the same rate in all directions. Some theories do suggest that there actually is a center to the universe somewhere, but it would be a point rather than a plane, and in any event the presence or absence of a center neither proves nor disproves the Big Bang theory.
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html

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• If there was a big bang then there has to be a center. If there was no big bang then the center is unknown. The popular idea is that there is a center and a big bang.

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coltech88

August 14, 2009 01:54 PM

Regarding your first reference by Robert Roy Britt, senior science writer for this web site, I do not believe that he understands the scientific interpretations of the WAMP and CORE data from which scientists have made the conclusions that the universe is not expanding from a central core.

Your second reference is in line with current interpretations of the data, saying:
There is no centre of the universe! According to the standard theories of cosmology, the universe started with a "Big Bang" about 14 thousand million years ago and has been expanding ever since. Yet there is no centre to the expansion; it is the same everywhere. The Big Bang should not be visualised as an ordinary explosion. The universe is not expanding out from a centre into space; rather, the whole universe is expanding and it is doing so equally at all places, as far as we can tell.

So it is not expanding from a central point. All observations point towards the Big Bang theory, but to view the Big Bang theory as having a universe coming only from a central point is not in line with current observations.

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