No matter where you go ... there you are.
Obama is the center of the universe comrade.
Obama thinks HE is at the center of the universe.
Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised...
Everything about our solar system and our place in the galaxy/universe is to provide a habitable observation platform for humans.
bttp.
Here’s the last line from the article:
“See? Just like it says in Genesis! The End.”
Thank God for science!
Preposterous.
If this is true, there is a limited bubble of what we might be able to see directly. It also explains our odd theorized shape of the universe with respect to the origin of the theoretical big bang.
The big question.....Does motion affect the speed of light relative to a static point in space? Or is light speed truly constant?
That would make ours one of the youngest galaxies in the universe.
Would it matter if we were?
Since the universe is non-Euclidian it has no center.
If our Galaxy is indeed central then that's great. But it's not necessary. God just doesn't seem to do the obvious thing, go the obvious route: a great artist doesn't do platitudes.
I suppose the focus on the Milky Way is to get around the problem of the Earth not even being in the center of our own galaxy, but the problem the Creationists don't account for is the Milky Way isn't even the center of the local cluster.
So you lunatics are returning gradually to geocentrism? You should have burned Galileo when you had the chance.
Nothing about this says anything about Evolution. I understand how this might make creations “feel” better in some sense, but I don’t think anyone who believes in evolution is going to be bothered with this, evolutionarily speaking.
To dispute this would be blasphemy!
Hah, where's Copernicus when you need him?
More like: on a cosmological scale, the notion of “center” is either meaningless or misunderstood. Too often we fail to recognize ours is a very very small and narrow existence and perception thereof.
To convince other cosmologists, the new model will have to pass muster with further inquiry.
"There are many observational tests of the standard cosmological model that the proposed model must pass, aside from the late phase of accelerated expansion," said Avi Loeb, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "These include big bang nucleosynthesis, the quantitative details of the microwave background anisotropies, the Lyman-alpha forest, and galaxy surveys. The authors do not discuss how their model compares to these tests, and whether the number of free parameters they require in order to fit these observational constraints is smaller than in the standard model. Until they do so, it is not clear why this alternative model should be regarded as advantageous."
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Mario Livio agreed that to be seriously considered, the model must be able to predict properties of the universe that astronomers can measure.
He said the real test "is in whether they are able to reproduce all the observed cosmological parameters (as determined, e.g. by a combination of the Hubble Constant and the parameters determined by the CMB observations). To only produce an apparent acceleration is in itself interesting, but not particularly meaningful."
In other words, this theory is at the proposal stage now and has never been tested.