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Wellfooled t1_jdum3n4 wrote

Reply to comment by sarcastic_patriot in Earth is technically the centre of the observable universe by randomebolaoutbreak

I'm just a layman, but I sympathize with this counter-shower thought. There are things in space that block our view--dark nebulas or even just normal stars preventing us from seeing what's directly behind them. Likewise gravitational lensing occasionally let's us see further than we would normally. The "observable" universe in that sense isn't a perfect sphere with Earth in the middle.

The "center" of the weird shape of the observable universe would be elsewhere. Of course how we could ever settle on the center of an area like that is beyond me.

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NLwino t1_jdunh7u wrote

>The word observable in this sense does not refer to the capability of modern technology to detect light or other information from an object, or whether there is anything to be detected. It refers to the physical limit created by the speed of light itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

You are always at the center of YOUR observable universe. If it's correct that the universe is isotropic.

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