It doesn't sound right

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We have proved that the universe is expanding by observing distant planets and stars going away from each other.

So can we predict our location in the universe by observing the different propotions of distance of sepration of planets arounds us taking in mind the different distance of those objects, if we are in the center all objects will seperate at the same rate.

This is what the big bang is supposed to sound like: https://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound.html. I don't know if that is right or not. — CuriousOne, Jul 07 '15 at 18:38
@CuriousOne ok, to be honest, compared to the Fox news depiction of the big bang as pretty obviously a large gasoline explosion, it does not sound right to me. Therefore it's probably right on the money, if a little disappointing in the big bang sound department. — , Jul 07 '15 at 19:09
@AcidJazz: Yeah, it does sound like a whimper (for the sake of avoiding a word closer to the human gut), doesn't it? Sometimes even large science is anti-climactic. :-) — CuriousOne, Jul 07 '15 at 19:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '15 at 18:49

Measurements of the expansion of the universe fit within the Cosmological Principle. In a nutshell this means that any observer anywhere in the universe sees the same relative motion of distant galaxies. This means that there is no center to the universe.

It doesn't sound right

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