Where is the centre of the universe?
Well scientifically speaking there is no physical centre to the universe, no point we could go to, stick a flag down and proclaim to have made it to the centre.

Now don’t freak out, But it might then surprise you to hear that you, yes little old you getting on with your day binging on YouTube videos, are the centre of the universe, and every single thing out there in space is expanding directly from where you currently are. Everything! Even if you moved to Mars, you will still be the centre. You can’t escape it and you will always be the centre of the universe you see and are in. But how can this be??


So technically speaking you are the centre of your observable universe and there is no actual central point in the universe.
You might think the obvious centre of the universe would be the place the big bang originated from. But the big bang was not actually an explosion like sometimes depicted, you know, that of a bomb that exploded at one point and from which everything has spread out from.

As far as we know it was actually an expansion of space itself from where there was no space to begin with, meaning there was no starting centre to reference. And as all of space in the universe is expanding equally in all places, wherever your viewing position in the universe is, it will appear that everything is expanding away from you, the centre viewing point.

It is hard to get your head round. Let’s use a common example.
Say you had a half blown up balloon, and that the surface represents the universe. Ignore the space inside the balloon, for this simplified example we are just going to relate it to the two-dimensional surface.

You put some pen marks on it and then start to blow it up more. The dots on the balloon will move apart at the same rate to each other. If we were to make one of the dots you, centre it on its original position to compare it, you will notice that it appears that all the dots are moving away from your position. If we moved you to another location and centred you over the that original dot, again everything will appear to be moving away from this location. Wherever you move to this would be the case.

The objects appear to be moving away at a faster rate the further out they are, even though they are scaling uniformly. We will try and cover this in a future video.

So there you go, when somebody makes you feel low, or you are worried about things, just take a moment to reflect that you are in fact, the centre of the universe and always will be. How does that feel? Comment below. Subscribe and press the bell icon for more videos.

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