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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> 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?
Well, yes. But that point is now everywhere. Every point is “birthed” from this one*.
Due to how expansion and relativity presents itself, every point will give the expression to be the center: stuff moves away in all directions. The answer can both be “there is no center” and “everything is a center”. Whichever you prefer.
*: the actual model is different and there quite possibly might have never been a “point”.
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