• Jimius@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    Also, the earth will never be in the same place twice. So it’s not even like you can only jump increments of a solar year.

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      And its not like there even is a same place. Position is relative, but to what in this case? Doesn’t even make sense

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          Imagine the universe as the surface of a balloon. The Big Bang Theory stipulates that at one point, the balloon was extremely small, like a single point. But now that the balloon is bigger, you can’t find a particular spot on the balloon where that point was, because everywhere was that point. No matter where you are in the universe, if you turned back time and shrunk the balloon back down, you would be at the point of the Big Bang. Nowhere is closer or farther away from it.

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            would not the fact that blue shifted galaxies being rare, mean that in general all galaxies are red shifted from the perspective of all galaxies, thus they are expanding away from a point on a similar vector, and thus have a central point?

            And a balloon does have a vector of direction: the mouth piece