Darren New escreveu:
> clipka wrote:
>> Maybe what we see isn't the "big bang" after all, but the "big crunch"?
> 
> My favorite personal random idea is ... what if we really *are* at the 
> center of the universe, and everything really *is* moving away from *us*?

Shouldn't then we not see them above the peak?  Oh, alright, spacetime 
is curved and light would also bend and come from the sides and seem to 
be right above our heads fooling us into thinking the universe is 
roughly spherical.

> I saw a great line:  "Of *course* God put the Earth in the center of the 
> universe. That's why all the stars shine *towards us*!"

Well, it's all relative to the observer, so from our point of view the 
universe indeed revolves around us.  Actually, to the common man in the 
streets -- whose view at nights is occluded by both smog polution and 
city lights so he doesn't really take the time to look up the few 
blinking stars so far away and so static -- the universe revolves around 
mundane job, bills and society's many rituals. :P

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