you are still not in the center of the universe

@@dimitrispapadakis2122 actually we all are the center... 🤷‍♀️ im the center and i know it... im the center and YOU KNOW IT.. butt i also know ur the center... 😂

the question wasn't "what is the center of the universe", it was "where was the big bang". those appear to be similar questions and would appear to have similar answers, but i think they don't. the way i see it, the first question has the answer of "nowhere". the second, "everywhere".

This doesn’t disprove the Big Bang Theory. Let me put it this way, whichever planet you are in our solar system, it will look like the other planets and the sun are orbiting your planet. But that doesn’t mean that nothing in the solar system is orbiting each other.

The answer is that there was no beginning point, or at least not one we can ever find, no matter how advanced our technology becomes. When the Universe began it was infinitely small, so without any physical size, it is impossible to determine where it is in our (sort of) infinite universe.

Peregrine how o u know it was infinitely small? maybe it was an atom across, then that atom is the where the universe began

aceXXofXXhearts because no space exhibits before big bang.

Parameth Ratnasakha no, no space outside the big bang exists

same as inside, BEFORE the big bang. It's singularity. In fact, there is no matter before big bag as well, only pure energy exists.

Eli Kelley Everywhere! The point is that to answer where an explosion happened, you need to find where everything is moving from. But no matter where you go, YOU seem like that point! So, the big bang happened everywhere.

TheBigMack Jackable The better answer is that it is not known where the big bang happened in the universe. Saying the big bang happened everywhere is like saying the house fire started everywhere since in relation to the fire everything is on fire. This is wrong, detectives will be able to figure out that the fire started in the kitchen from the stove. The house did not all just combust at once. If the big bang happened everywhere then that mean there was no big bang essentially, the universe was just snapped into existence. No, the question that minute physics was supposed to answer was "where in all the space of the universe was the area in which all the space of the universe expanded from, i.e. where was the big bang?" It didn't do that, it just told us that everywhere is the center there fore nowhere is the center, which didn't answer the question assuming the was a big bang that started smaller than an atom and EXPANDED into the entire universe. Do you get the picture, minute physics did not answer the question.

The question is flawed. You have to understand that there was no before the big bang. And the Big Bang begun where space-time begun. You can't put a location on where space-time begun because space-time defines what a location is. Without the big bang, there would be no notion of where or when. Think of the universe like a giant sphere. The sphere grows larger as the universe expands. From any point on the sphere while it grows, every point around it grows in every direction opposite the point. This would make it the the "center" of the sphere. But the sphere started from it's actual physical center, rather than from a point on the sphere. So there is no center of the universe, but there is a point on the universe as a sphere where it began... but that center cannot be defined as a point on the sphere (where we exist). If I have conveyed my thoughts correctly, you will understand that there is no center of the universe, and the universe expands from it's center (which does not exist in space-time). To more easily digest the fact that there was no such thing as location before the Big Bang, think about it in relation to time. There was no time before the Big Bang because the Big Bang was the birth of time. The same goes with space. There was no "where" and there was no "location" before the Big Bang because the Big Bang was the birth of space and location. You can't put a location on the birth of location, because there is no such thing as location beforehand. The Big Bang technically did happen everywhere because, going back to the sphere, the sphere began when it was it's tiniest, when there was only one point that existed on all sides of the sphere. That point, the only point, would be where the universe began, which at the time would be everywhere. As the point expanded, more points existed, all of them being from the first point, all of which are the center of the universe everything around you is expanding like marker dots on a balloon, all of the dots are the center of the universe to itself, all of which are the epicenter of where matter began... so all points in the universe are where the Big Bang began because all points of the Universe existed as one when the Universe was born. So... The big bang happened everywhere.

+Joey Sofia that can't be right because the sphere has an edge the universe has no edge. the bing bang happened everywhere because it was at a point where the entire universe was condensed, but then that means space time didn't have a begining, like Henry said in the video before this there was no begining so that means that space-time is infinite, so is the universe, and, therefore the big bang happened everywhere to everywhere

kawaii Senpai By the sphere comparison, i meant the surface of the sphere is the universe. It has no end, but is not technically infinite. math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/centre.html for more information

Alex93435 I know right!

actually they do

Someone has clearly never been to the secret lost pet city on the moon

*puts on tin foil hat* that's what YOU think...

She would not lie on basis of what she has been told........ The lie is centuries ago Lol

You were too close minded to see the universe from different perspectives. This time, forn your mom's :)

He answered it? by explaining how certain things literally can not be the "centre"

***** Well that's not and all but he never stated where it was.Just stated how each area could be a center of th universe.Didnt really answer it

Hououin Kyouma If one really wants the answer to "where did it happend" then I am sorry but no one knows.

+Hououin Kyouma space as we understand it didn't exist back then. the question is undefined. it's a bit like asking "when was purple?" sure, could sound logical, i'm asking what time was purple. but the question is undefined and means nothing.

Yal Rathol I feel like if we are able to somehow calculate or find feasible evidence of how old earth and the Big Bang is.Im sure those questions aren't beyond our reach.We just don't have the technology as of now.I'm still trying dying to figuring out what is the smallest thing in existence beyond a atom and beyond that etc.There has to be a source within reason.

Because the most simple way to imagine the universe's expansion is to think of it drawn on the skin of a balloon. When you blow it up, everything will separate apart at an equal rate from each other, so there will be no centre, even perspective wise.

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***** You got to know how to spell it first, then the teaching begins

Mazen Kudsi I don't think you know what I'm quoting man :P

Patrick Mahoney nice one literally reiterating everything I just said TWICE haha :P

Me neither. I want my money back!

It told you plenty. It's not his responsibility for you to understand it. Where was the Big Bang? The answer is that although logic might point us to a singular point and that point should be obvious, the truth is that it is not. It is relative to your perspective, literally your frame of reference. Meaning, the location is not determinate in a meaningful way. We would need to measure from outside the Universe, a proposition that may not even make sense.

Creationists, damn Creationists. They read the title of the video. They just clicked on it obviously just to down-vote it. They didn't even bother to watch the video. Deist btw

***** he did kinda in a roundabout way. he pretty much said "fuck if i know and theres no way anyone can know"

***** He did answer it, but he didnt give the answer most wanted to see. Mind you it is a very difficult answer to understand in a normal common sense frame of mind, but the universe doesnt have to work by our perspective lol. Sadly that fact is enormously difficult for most to digest. at all.

***** Shkotay D He really did not answer the question at all. What he said is that it did not start at Earth's location. There is kind of an answer to this question, it's long and very theoritical, and obviously no one can be sure, but that's not the answer at all.

Steam1901 The point literally is everywhere though, and any one place can say it is the centre if it wants. It is an irrelevant thing. In order to ask where the point was when it first started to expand, it has to be in relation to something else, and there is no way of making such a comparison. But from the inside, the point really is everywhere.

everywhere/nowhere at the same time, so it doesn't matter were you go, you're always in "the center of the universe"

***** you can't pinpoint the exact location of the Big Bang because everything which exists expanded from it. The only way you could find the center is if you define the parameters of the universe or quantify what exists outside of the Universe. (The space that contains the Universe)

+Wolf Pytlak NOOOOO, youre in the center of the Observable universe.. not the universe itself.

Obviously, from that video it's clear the big bang happened somewhere a little east of Albuquerque.

yes, but due to the expansion, that "point" is probably several million light years across by now, and is a random point in the middle of the void from any perspective but a god's.

think outside the box ... the singularity does not exist in a single coordinate inside space and time/spacetime, the singularity is the whole universe (i.e. everything) shrunk down to an infinitesimally small point of dense matter and energy. outside this singularity is nothingness (as far as we know at this point ... we would have to know what is inside a black hole to know what nothing is or something like that, idk) so relative to our position in spacetime, that information is irrelevant because our position and every other reference frame/position in spacetime would be INSIDE the singularity that was the big bang

GreenLightMe except if it's infinite

It was everywhere If we would rewind the time, the opposite of what is happening right now (inflation) would happen We would be what everything cramps into, but only from our point of view

there is no "singularity" that term.. unfortunately is literally "GOD" as in science ACTUALLY DOES NOT KNOW THE ANSWER so there for a SINGULARITY... literally thats how and why and when that term is used.. so as a atheists and a huge fan of the scientific method.. i think this term and how its used is utter garbage and just reminds me.. even logical and reasonable people can still resort to silly religious like thinking.... "WE DONT KNOW.. WE DONT HAVE THE ANSWER... PHYSICALS BREAKS DOWN AND WE DO NOT HAVE THE TOOLS TO GO ANY FURTHER.. THEREFORE SINGULARITY.." BULLSHIT

no dude, the whole point is that there is no center of the universe. the big bang happens when all of the matter of the universe is reduced to a infinitesimal size, the where of that question is irrelevant because it is not a single point inside the universe, it is the universe itself reduced to that size. the universe expands not from that single explosion that happened way back when, it expands because all the planets and shit in the vacuum of space are moving away from everything around it. in short, space is expanding from every reference frame so then every reference frame appears to be the center of the universe

+HgKron It was answered because he said that there isn't a definite point. It could have expanded from anywhere, it wouldn't change a thing. There is no center.

Just run the expansion in reverse in your head, and you'll find that this vid answers the question exactly right.

Could we not ask where the center of the observable universe is?

IdentityDM The centre of the observable universe is earth. Because the observable universe is just that part of the universe that light has had enough time to travel to earth so we can see it.

auspolk that could be extended to say the center of the observable universe is you. to me, the center of the observable universe is me

Which is actually impossible to accomplish considering the fact that the Universe itself is enormous.

the Universe doesn't have a center. but from our perspective we are the center of the universe

Hi, know this is after 8 years, but if you haven't seen it yet, Henry has a video called "A better way to picture atoms".

It could, but as we weak-minded humans (in one relative) can only comprehend three. According to string theory it could be 26...but then again, that's just a theory. It could be infinite...*Mind commences blowing up*

For starters, there ARE three spatial and one temporal dimensions, so if you want to invoke some sort of higher dimensional analogies, you'll need to add another dimension in. You're probably thinking of a sphere in FOUR spatial dimensions (and keeping one temporal dimension, of course). While it is difficult to picture a 3-sphere (the name for a sphere analogue in a one higher dimension than the sphere we know), its mathematical properties are well known. What we DO know is that we don't need to invoke higher dimensions in order to picture expansion. In fact, if what you said is true, then there should be measureable curvature in the 3 spatial dimensions that we know of - but the latest evidence suggests the curvature is either negative or zero, both of which is in conflict with a 3-sphere.

it's you.

***** Didn't you just watch the video?

He did answer it by saying that from our point of View the earth was the center of the big bang, and this means every other point of view is the center of the big bang, "it's the universe's way to make us feel special" , so the Big Bang happened everywhere, that point where it started from was everywhere.

It may not be clear, but this implies that it was everywhere.

"where was the big bang?" "yes."

After watching this three times I still feel he didn't actually answer the question. He gave a great detailed description, but no definitive answer. Occasionally you can read a comment here which brings up a theory to further add to the possible answer. However in all actuality we're still missing a few pieces of the puzzle to even call the Big Bang definitive. It's just widely accepted because it makes the most sense mathematically.

qweezark Nope, he answered it. You just have to read a few more other descriptions of this questions. It boils down to "the big bang was everywhere and there is no centre, cause every place in the universe can be seen as the centre, but if you shift views, then everything is also expanding away from that new point. And so on, and so on". There is no centre it expanded from. The big bang is everything, and all matters placement in the universe is relative to change perspective the instant you view it from another spot. He said it all, just boiled down a lot more. He cant tell you there is a real, fixed centre, cause there isnt one. He said as much.

qweezark Oh, and since the recent gravity waves finding, they have direct evidence for Guth and Lindes expansion of the universe, which in turn is itself direct evidence for the Big Bang. To be fair it will need a lot of confirmation to be taken as law, but the team did a LOT of work to rule out alternative causes as well. Sixty Symbols did a great review of the work, and pointed out this needs replication, but remarked that the BICEPS 2 team did a hell of a job in making sure their case was tight. Aside from actually being there for it, they have the certainty they are looking for in that matter.

I'm sorry... He may have said "There is no center", but does not imply that it is everywhere. Before it expanded it was compressed into a single point that physics as we know can't explain. Once we find proof that multiple "Big Bangs" exist, either in parallel or series, Then it'll be definitive.

qweezark Physicists already have analogs for such an event known as "black holes". There is also no law in physics saying that there is a bottom limit that matter and energy can be compressd into. As many have said including Hawking "whatever isnt denied by the laws of physics happens". You are also talking about proof of the multiverse. Lets work on this one first before going onto other ones ;) As for this one, the gravity waves finding is about as dead on as you are going to get aside from actually being there the moment it happened. That is essentially direct proof. There are MASSIVE amounts of indirect proof demonstrating an expansion from a point. You also misunderstand the concept of the expanding universe. There IS no centre, unless you want to say it is everywhere. From our and other planets or galaxies points of view, any of us can say we are the centre. This isnt easy, but our common sense view of the universe is the wrong one. The physics view of the universe is the right one, as bizarre as it sounds. Listen to the video again a few more times and you may get it.

43 people did not get it in the last 2 months.

That's why so many people hates physics at school... if they cant even get this very simple concept, more complex stuff must seem like nonsense to them.

but that is not the point! The point is on top of there head!

They get it. They are just religitards.

The title of this video is misleading. There is no "where" before the big bang started because there is no space and time to say "where".

Everywhere.

ok then, thanks for it and sorry Henry,I couldn't understand what you meant by "everywhere" :P

This is called "the big rip"

Of course that is impossible if the universe is some kind of a 4-space-dimensional sphere. But that's only one possibility, right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe