Earth, center of the Universe..

I am the center of the universe, for I can see equally far in all directions at the limit of my ability to see. Furthermore, wherever I go, there I am! The center of the universe is predicated on my presence! Special conditions must accompany my very existence because wherever I go there is a place for me to sleep, and the food's not too shabby!

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OP, could you sum up your posting in just a sentence or too.  I don't quite understand what your point is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space

 Thank you

 gambit13 hello, yes it is.  There has to be an expansion to carrie away star radiation or they would overheat and all the stars would burn up at once.  The Hubble constant is 74 km per sec. per sec.  Unless it has been updated. 

 It is expanding at the speed of light near the edge but that is really very slow when you compare it to the size of the Universe.  Our galaxy is 100,000 light years across. So it will take 100,000 years for the universe to expand the length of one galaxy.

 But the expansion is believed to be accelerating. Spin networks generate spacetime into existence. This is where spacetine comes from.  Spin networks have more energy than strings. 

 First we have parallel Universe's, then our Universe, then the stars, then molecules, then atoms, then quarks, then strings, then spin networks, then infinite intelligence.  

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and the universe is 13.7 billion years old, so unless the earth was created already in the middle of the universe, we would only be 4.6 billion light years from one side and 18.3 billion light years from the other side.

 Deranged hello.  There are many forms of radiometric dating and other forms.  The problem is they  do not all agree.  So I think people take from it and find themself agreeing  with what seems more convincing.

 Some types of dating gives us a very young Earth others a very old Earth.  Virtually all of the Earth clocks give us a young Earth.  If the Earth were only 40,000 years old all the resources would be used up, there would be no food for us today, and there would be evidence everywhere you look of the population explosion that consumed everything the Earth has to offer. 

 Relativity shows how we can have a very young Earth wile simultaneously giving us a very old universe.   

 Thank you dajacca, I have already ben corrected on that. I don't know where I got that from. 

 This is true in a very real sense.  We all walk in our own worlds.  The super positioned light all around you is only seen by you.  Your left eye diserns it differently than your right eye.  We all see a different rainbow.

 Our relationship with God is as personal as our D.N.A.

That is just another way of saying each person is in the center of what they can personally observe. That is not surprising at all and is pretty much tautologically true. What would be surprising would be if that wasn't the case, and instead someone looked around and saw their phenomenological center, not from their own location in space-time, but from some other vantage point, like, say, the Andromeda Galaxy looking back towards the Milky Way, when you are physically located in the Milky Way at the *time*.

I hope you know, though, that it is most likely that electricpawn was being sarcastic. It was the sarcasm that I was agreeing with, not actually building a religion and/or philosophy and or relationship with a particular deity concept from the phenomenology of being in your own center of observation, which it appears to me you are attempting.

 Timotheous, I am not the center of anything.  That is a givin.  Yes it is rather repetitious to keep hearing that.  God is the center of all things, not one I made up but the one who comes from the book that has defeated whole nations that opposed it. 

 I felt a little sarcasm in it that is no revelation to me.  I choose to respond in a positive way.  Once a heated arguement starts I will stop posting, nothing can be gained from that. 

 I also think others are benefiting that only read and choose not to post.  You and I are not the only people involved. 

Definitely not. Copernicus is turning in his grave.

Hey, Reverand, you should really stop with this God-Poop. I know you fantasize about these things, but it's getting beyond cartoon silliness...

trysts,  I tryed to keep it on science but it never does.  The Rev in front of my name causes posters to go from U.F.O.s to religion then personal attacks.  Look at any original post I made. 

You're quite right that people's comments can make one disclose their private "beliefs". I was a little annoyed at your last statements, but it is my own fault there. My apologies.

 My apologies to you for any arrogance on my part.

RevLarry, while I still don't at this time agree with the embedded fine-tuning and anthropic ideas, as from a scientific perspective I think those are soundly accounted for purely from naturalistic explanations, I looked at the initial post and the following posts. It is true that you tried to focus this particular thread on science. I would not have even thought of looking that over again if it were not for trysts apologizing. That threw me. :)

Cheers.