A her. Margaret Geller of the Harvard Smithonian Observatory. The edges are as far as the present telescopes can see. Not sure if this includes Keck, which was constructed at ITEK while I was working there. Her data that I refer to may be too old for that.

But it occurs to me that it is quite reasonable for the earth to be close to the center of mass because if we look far enough, which is also back in time, there are no more galaxies. So the speed of light at which gravitational effects are transmitted ensures that we are reasonably close the the center of the gravitational effects that we can detect.

So its a matter of definition. There has to be centers of gravitational effects which are observer location dependent. Since that is all we can measure, do we gave the right to hypothesize about things we cannot measure, like the distribution of mass in the universe disregarding the speed of light effects.???

It's a little like talking about god. We can only assume that all that mass is in existence. We cannot see it. It's beyond our horizon.

• Re: Re: please re-phrase this statement richard. - libbie468 - March 9, 2001 - 23:09 UTC
  • Re: Re: Re: please re-phrase this statement richard. - rayredbourne - March 10, 2001 - 03:07 UTC
    • Re: Re: Re: Re: please re-phrase this statement richard. - rayredbourne - March 10, 2001 - 03:17 UTC
      • You guys are all incorrect. No edges, no centers, no rotation. - alexander - March 12, 2001 - 15:13 UTC
        • No centers, no edges, no voids. - alexander - March 13, 2001 - 18:02 UTC