RE: Questions about Time, Distance, and Relativity
November 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2014 at 2:01 pm by Cyberman.)
(November 10, 2014 at 1:32 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Also, when they speak of the CMBR being observable in every direction that our telescopes point, I visualize it similarly to the "waves" of a smoke ring that dispense outward from the center of an explosion (as in the big bang, time, space, and matter expanding from the Singularity). Have I gotten this wrong? Is there a better way to visualize it?
It might help if you think that there is no actual centre, in the sense with which we're familiar. Everywhere in the Universe is the centre. The classic balloon illustration is a pretty accurate way to visualise it.
Basically, if someone asks where the Big Bang occurred, you can point to any random spot you like and say "there" and you'd be right.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
