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 may have the picture in your head of a little squashed universe as a point, that big bangs, and expands outwards? But… Into what? Everything that is the observablr universe, including the space between things, was in that point. There (likely) is no outside we can decipher from inside. So that tiny point is infinite (likely, or perhaps finite without a border) and so has its own positional center of sorts, but the whole thing expanded from there, but it itself is not the center of something, it itself *is* in fact everything. I think you’re stuck on the visual of a point in 3d space ballooning from the persp8of an outside observer. It’s not quite like that, put yourself inside the point, remembering it is infinite but also infinitely condensed, and reimagine the expansion.
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