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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Krenim: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb] It's been a long time since astrophysics class for me (and what I learnt at the time has probably since been proven wrong) but I was under the impression that all the galaxies are moving away from a common central point (some are even colliding), though yes I do realise the big bang wasn't a literal explosion but a rapid expansion of space. Either way and however you phrase it, the galaxies are altering their relative positions from each other, so from what other fixed point would you gage it?[/qb][/QUOTE]There is no fixed point from which you can gage the expansion of the universe. Here in the Milky Way, we see (mostly) every other galaxy moving away from us. The further away the galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us. However, that does [i]not[/i] mean that we are at the center of the universe. A galaxy billions of light-years away observes the exact same thing. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb] Still, leaving that aside if you instead take the galactic centre as the reference point; how far could a solar system travel in 150 years? [/qb][/QUOTE]The sun could travel about .11 light-years in 150 years with respect to the center of the galaxy. The stars in our galactic neck-of-the-woods move at similar rates. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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