Re: Ask Gugel Anything About the Big Bang
Okay, new question about whether there is a center point to the universe. I understand the idea that space itself expands. The universe itself may be endless, but what about the matter originating in the BB? None if it is more than 14 billion or 47 billion apart. Or I guess that would be actually 94 BLY apart, if it's 47 in each direction. So within the infinite, shapeless universe, isn't there an expanding globe of stuff -- our observable universe -- that has a center point? If the universe is 94 billion LY wide, can't 47 BLY in from the frontier be considered a center point? And where in the sky would it be?
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I agree it is slightly subtle - on the other hand, it IS basic information for someone setting themselves up as any kind of 'authority' on matters cosmological
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He understands that. The critics are just pouncing on something ambiguous, inadequately explained prose. It would be much more adult to say "Don't you mean 47 BLY?" rather than "gotcha, you wrong, wrong, wrong, bow before my superior intellect for all the world to see."
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