• Ymer@feddit.dk
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    11 hours ago

    That could sort of explain why it’s inherently impossible to determine the center - but that doesn’t rule out the existence of a geometric center of the universe, right?

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      7 hours ago

      Kiiiind of. I suppose we haven’t definitively ruled out a geometric centre, but it runs up against Occam’s Razor in a really big way. A centre of the universe would require some kind of boundary or edge to the universe, and the physical dynamics of how that would even work are very much non-trivial.

      Generally the universe is thought to either loop back on itself like the surface of a globe, or extend infinitely in every direction.