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Re: does universe have a centre - 01-24-2008, 06:53 AM

Cant there be a special point? The Universe is teeming with special points...black holes, white holes, wormholes etc etc...

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[size=2]An ellipse has two focal points, but these are not called the centre. Commonly, the centre of an ellipse is the point midway between the two focal points. The reason it is difficult to find the centre of the universe is that there isn't one. It disobeys the cosmological principle to say that there exists a centre of the universe, since this would imply a "special" point in the universe.
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