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To: Hunble
I have never been able to understand why the origin of the visible Universe can be viewed from every direction, unless I am at it's center.

Is Earth the center of the Universe?


What if living in the universe was similar to living on the surface of a balloon? Our universe got bigger as the balloon expands. Everything looks like it is exapanding away from us, but we are not in the center of it.
46 posted on 09/24/2004 10:24:36 AM PDT by BikerNYC
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To: BikerNYC
Ok, what if I was living on the surface of a balloon?

Would it not be like living on the Earth? There is a horizon where the surface of the Earth curves away. There is also an up and down (sky and ground) that is very different from anything else.

Even living on the surface of a balloon, I would never be able to view the sky as equal in every direction.

50 posted on 09/24/2004 10:30:40 AM PDT by Hunble
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