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From: chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander)
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Subject: Re: Where's the center of the universe?
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 14:53:59 EDT
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Summary: The Center of Our Galactic Cluster


	One step towards an answer is to break the problem down.
	We are part of a cluster of galaxies.  The galaxies in
	each cluster are expanding away from each other and
	every cluster is expanding away from the others.

	If our cluster is like those that we can see, then
	the galaxies in it are moving away in the direction of
	their flat sides, rather than spinning away on their
	edges like a buzzsaw.  This would mean that a line
	drawn through the perpendicular axis of a galaxy would
	tend to point to the center of the galactic cluster.
		
	A natural result of this orientation would be that the
	side (or flat face) of the galaxy that was facing the
	center of the cluster would also face most or all of the
	galaxies in the same cluster.

	Quickly: since Andromeda is our major cluster partner,
	the side of the Milky Way that we see it on is where the
	center of our cluster is.  The center of our galaxy is
	in Sagittarius, so find the point in the sky 90 degrees
	away from Sag., perpendicular to the line of the Milky
	Way and on the side with Andromeda.  That is the center
	of our galactic cluster.

	NOW THE UNIVERSAL SOLUTION!!!:
	We can now apply the same principle to the clusters if
	we treat the universe as a cluster of clusters.  There
	would be one particular area of the sky (Hercules?)
	where a tremedous concentration of galacitc clusters has
	been observed.  The would be the direction of the center
	of the universe.  If all the clusters are expanding away
	from us, most of them will be in the direction of the
	center!  ta da.

	conditions:
	1) it is hard to apply this to spherical galaxies, but
	   they are immature, and therefore no responsible for
	   their actions.
	2) that there is a uniform distribution of matter (clusters0
	   in the universe.

			- Chris "Space Cadet" Salander