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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.astro.expert
Subject: Re: Where's the center of the universe?
Message-ID: <5879@duke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 13:51:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 13:51:04 1985
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Summary: 

In article <514@x.UUCP> john@x.UUCP (John Woods) writes:

>> 
>Well, not quite.  It is, in fact, a tad warmer in the rough direction of
>Saggitarius, which is therefore the center.  The difference is extremely
>small, so it took some time to detect it.

Well, Saggitarius is the direction of the centre of the Milky Way
galaxy; I`m just a poor innocent philosopher, but that seems like quite
a coincidence to me (i.e. that we just happen to be at the point in our
orbit around galactic downtown at which the centre and the Universe's
own central point are in the same direction.

On the other hand, that it is a big coincidence doesn't mean it can`t be
a coincidence.  But doesn't the universe having an observable centre
screw up some cosmological stuff that works well otherwise?

Could someone who is up-to-date expand on this a little?  Is it
coincidence?
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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)