(March 10, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Heywood Wrote: My personal opinion is that there is nothing significant or special about being in the center cosmologically speaking. However some people do hold that place to be special. It's a subjective thing.
Then why bring it up?
(March 10, 2014 at 9:34 pm)Heywood Wrote: If you argue that being at the center holds no significance, I don't have a beef with you. If you argue that life isn't at the center cosmologically speaking, I do have a beef with you.
The planck length and the observable universe, in my opinion, make the most sense for boundaries of a cosmological scale. Life falls right in the center of that scale.
As rasetsu has pointed out, you're arbitrarily choosing endpoints. Then you're attempting to justify that by pointing out they are the endpoints of our current understanding. You're making the assumption that these endpoints hold any sort of significance, which is especially unjustified due to our inability to observe things on such vastly different scales from ourselves.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
