Our location
Our location
If we can only see the same distance in all directions, essentially creating a "ball" of visible data and making our viewpoint centric, is there any way of knowing that we're in a corner? ..lower?..higher? Out in left field? Where in the universe are we?
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Re: Our location
In three dimensional terms, every point in the Universe (observable or otherwise) can equally be considered the center. There are no corners, no higher or lower.imafwama wrote:If we can only see the same distance in all directions, essentially creating a "ball" of visible data and making our viewpoint centric, is there any way of knowing that we're in a corner? ..lower?..higher? Out in left field? Where in the universe are we?
When you stand on the Earth, you can only see a circle around you, to the horizons. But from the outside, you are simply at an arbitrary point on the surface of a sphere. The same holds true for the Universe.
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