How can the universe not have a center?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

I might be incorrect and people with better knowledge can explain to me in that case.

Question is incorrect because you are trying to make sense of 10 dimensions with logistics from 3 dimensional perception. It is same as people asking “What was before Big Bang?”. It’s like asking previously blind people what they saw before they got new eye or asking you what was it like before you existed. Time and Space didn’t exist before Big Bang, so there was no center.

May be there is no such thing like starting and ending of existence. May be we are applying our logic of enclosed and limited perception to make conclusion which may not apply in higher dimensions.

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