The Universe Has No Center... and You're Not There

Join the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's James White as he discusses how we think the universe appears, and more importantly, how we know that. Presented by the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. Series: "Eyes on the Universe" [2/2000] [Science] [Show ID: 4652]

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[ericajjful]

brilliant video

[khijasmith]

good work here

[MrBeefreetwo]

the universe is like a big balloon with dots on ot representing the galaxies.thats why the universe is stretching ,the galaxies are moving away from each other almost at the same rate.thing is where did it all come from an what caused that to come about.there had to be something thats outside of space an time as we know it.

[calvintrainer1212]

How can something is expanding and has no center? Hmm

[smkipus]

From about 37:00 on is the best part. I like how at the end he says that the center of the universe is everywhere and I am it!

[MultiNaturalist]

@EvenStar303 I believe I covered that concern in stating those beliefs are "normal brain functions of 'filling in the gaps' where there are good reasons to make gap-spanning connections." Delusions lack 'good reasons,' unlike ordinary 'filling in,' which would not be called delusions. One of the characteristics of 'filling in' is lack of certainty, whereas delusional thought is all about certainty. God is fine if God is featureless. Add features and you must deal with contradicting evidence.

[EvenStar303]

@MultiNaturalist Good point, but you have taken my meaning out of context.

If you ad my fallowing sentence to it you will see that my statement makes perfect sense.

"And you have believed them as being true."

When you believe that the imagined part of the information is actually true, that is also a form of delusion or self deception. Without being aware of that you are doing it.

We always have to keep an open mind that there may be another explanation to why someone says something.

See my vid's

[MultiNaturalist]

@EvenStar303 "But your mind filled in the gaps as usual with illusions about my realization.[...]So who is delusional?" Delusion is different from normal brain functions of "filling in the gaps" where there are good reasons to make gap-spanning connections. Delusion is continuing to believe a proposition when sufficiently compelling evidence is available to disprove it. Either you haven't looked at the evidence, or you choose to ignore it. Belief in God is fine, if that God is featureless.

[Hempstraw]

@shotaboy100 I'll agree with you that we disagree. You're not a retard, no hard feelers :)

Who knows and who doesn't. One day we will know the truth if you're right, or we will never know if I'm right. Speculation after speculation, story after story, nobody knows for absolute certainty.

Peace out !!

[JohananRaatz]

@shotaboy100 You'd have a being outside of space- time (the universal wave-fcn) which brings into being, and is thus soveriegn to the universe -which sounds just like God.

The one exception is that it still needs to be a mind. But then we discover that it actually is a mind because of Orch-OR.

"can't possibly be"

Well I suppose you could have a "wave-fcn of the wave-fcn of the universe," like a "God's God" and so on ad infinitum. But I don't see a need for more than one God.