If I understand the big bang theory correctly our whole universe was in a hot dense state. And then suddenly, rapid expansion happened where everything expanded outwards presumably from the singularity. We know for a fact that the universe is expaning and has been expanding since it began. So, theoretically if we go backwards in time things were closer together. The more further back we go, the more closer together things were. We should eventually reach a point where everything was one, or where everything was none (depending on how you look at it). This point should be the center of the universe since everything expanded from it. But after doing a bit of research I have discovered that there is no center to the universe. Please explain to me how this is possible.
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You’ve probably heard that space is expanding. Everything is getting farther away from everything else as time passes. If you rewind time, everything gets closer and closer together. This intuition inspired the idea of the Big Bang.
Well, if you rewind time far enough, everything and everywhere is squished into the exact same spot, the hypothesized singularity. That means that, no matter where you go, you are in a place or touching something that used to be at the position of the singularity.
If the location where the singularity “was” is what you’re thinking of as the “center”, then that center is, well, everywhere. The point in the palm of your hand is as much the center of the universe as the sun is.
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