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Is the radial scale logarithmic? Or is it even more compressed than that?
First thing I will point out is there is no known shape of the universe.
Is saddle still the best candidate? Like when you move a circle across a circle you get a torus, and when you move a parabola across parabola you get a "saddle"
I want a toroidal universe. Just so it can be eaten by an extracosmic Homer Simpson.
obviously the eye of our universe is flat
It's not really to scale at all. Look at the distance between earth and the moon in relation to the other planets.
I mean, isn't it obvious? Christianity has traditionally believed that Earth is the center of the Universe. Everything in the Universe is moving away from us, as if we are sitting at the very spot where "Let There Be Light" resulted in light being let. Physics has proven that we are at the literal single unique geometric center of the Universe. /s
Everything in the universe is moving away from us.
Frok now on, I'm gonna attribute it to Christianity.
This is what the human eye looks like through a microscope, from the perspective of a germ on a microscope slide.
Serious question: Do we know how far removed from the exact center of the Big Bang we are? Is that something that can be deduced?
I'm not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.
Everything in space is moving, but it's not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.
The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It's not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It's more about the surface of that balloon stretching.
The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.
Does it mean space being created out of nothing between things? I’m not good at it but wouldn’t that violate conservation of energy?
I think that's the point of the webb. Well not the center.. I forget.
Do you mean woo-woo shit or conspiracy shit? Or both?
Yes
Proof that the universe is an egg. Armageddon will come when the Christian God's sperm comes to fertilize us and we'll be reborn into Heaven unless climate change aborts us as a foetus
Gaze not into the abyss
The Great Brown Eye
FAKE!
Even children know that the sun isn't the center of the universe - it's Earth. Duh!