• Question: What's in the centre of the universe?

    Asked by lambrw01 to Carol, Ellie, John, Philip, Rebecca on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Rebecca Lacey

      Rebecca Lacey answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Hi lambrw01 it is thought that the universe does not have a centre at all. This is because the universe is always expanding and there is no centre to this expansion (ie it is not expanding outwards from a central point).

    • Photo: Philip Glasson

      Philip Glasson answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      We are the centre!
      The centre IS where is all started…
      and it all started….. here, and there and everywhere..

      If you imagine you’re an ant living on the outside of a big balloon
      And that balloon is being filled with air so it is gets slowly bigger n bigger.

      and another ant asks you “which way do I run to reach the centre of the balloon”
      You can only really give them two answers.
      1) There is no centre (because you can’t reach it)
      or
      2) The centre is everywhere, because… when the balloon was very small, everywhere on the surface of the balloon was very close together and that was its centre

      Now that probably sound really Wired
      And that’s because the universe IS Wired
      and that’s what makes it fun 😉

    • Photo: Carol White

      Carol White answered on 1 Jul 2012:

      I’m with Phil on this one… EVERYTHING is the centre. Because everything is moving away from everything so there’s no longer a middle because even the middle is moving! That makes my head spin just thinking about it…

    • Photo: John Welford

      John Welford answered on 1 Jul 2012:

      What the others have said. Plus we don’t know whether the universe is infinite in size! It is hard to say where the centre of something is if it doesn’t have an edge.

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