So I’ve been going through the dangerous rabbit hole of wondering how everything came to be and, obviously, the leading theory is the big bang theory. Where an infinitely dense spot of matter exploded and created every single thing in existence, including the ever-expanding universe. So, if the ever-expanding universe started expanding from an infinitely dense spot that exploded, wouldn’t that spot be the “center of the universe”, since it’s the starting point of said expansion?
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The beginning of the universe is often described as an infinity dense point that then, over the next 14 billion years, expanded and continues to expand into what we see today. This is a simplification to make the concept easier to understand.
The reality is that it wasn’t a single infinitely desne point, but rather the beginning of the univers, as far as we can tell, was an infinity dense everything that happened everywhere all at once, and that everything has been expanding ever since.
There may be a center, there may not. We have a limit to how far we can see, which is what we call the observable universe. There is most likely even more galaxies past what we can see, but because we can’t see everything, there is no way for us to know where the center is or if a center even exists.
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