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Podcast: Where is the Centre of the Universe?
Written by Fraser Cain
There are some people – I’m not naming names – who think the universe revolves around them. In fact, for most of humankind, everybody thought that. It’s only been in the last few hundred years that scientists finally puzzled out that the Earth isn’t the centre of the universe at all. That begs the question: where is the centre?
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February 26th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Sorry guys…this one sucked…most of us have been there done that. Esp the past history part. Are you playing to your "new" expanded listener base? Most of us old timers are way beyond this point. How about explaining again…dark matter and dark energy. This is being attacked by individuals in your field as nothing more than space gnomes invented to make the math work. I want a concrete statement that the dark side of the universe is real.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Hi there.
I believe that a concrete statement about the dark matter is most unlikely to show up even in a medium term.
Sorry Scott, i think you'll have to wait a little longer…
February 27th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Oh please, this stuff gets so tiring. If you can't do stories on real science, how about just some on UFO's and Alien Abductions?
February 27th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Very nice show
February 28th, 2008 at 3:50 am
what is the next of the universe?
February 28th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Whers's the center? We're probably kidding ourselves with this question. I don't care what the math says-how can something without boundaries have a center?
February 29th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Great show. Can't wait for part 2 next week.
April 19th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Hi Frend
http://www.hypothesis-of-universe.com/en/index.php?nav=home
May 1st, 2008 at 10:58 am
hundreds years ago, the sultan of Baghdad, Harun al Rasyid has asked the same question to Mullah Nasrudin the jenius, "where is the centre of universe Nasrudin?….the sultan say….and Nasrudin answer…just under your feet your majesty…
he he think this again my friend
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 am
I think the center of the universe exists(ed) only in time (14 or so billion years ago), but not in (today's) space because we can't get to 14 billion years ago (or anywhere close to that).