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 big bang didn’t happen at a single spot. The big bang wasn’t an explosion within the universe, it was a rapid expansion of everything, everywhere (all at once).
Everything was infinitely dense, then space itself expanded and things became less dense. There was no centre because it happened everywhere.
It’s not impossible that the universe has a centre somehow, but our theories so far make more sense if we assume the universe is infinite, and an infinite universe doesn’t have a centre
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