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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Turns out, no; every point is expanding away from every other point, so every point sees itself as the center of expansion.

[–] Ymer 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day 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.

For a geometric center you would need a boundary of the universe