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As I am not a bigot I have no problem with dark energy or dark matter.I still can not get my head around the idea that the Universe has no center. I have no reason to think that the center is anywhere near me but it seems that it should have one.If the universe is infinite in all directions then I can see how every point could be considered the center. If there was a point somewhere in the past when the universe was not infinite in extent then there must have been a center. If it started as a dot then what happened to that spot? I realize that this is an analogy but the center is the same place it was before you inflated it. I do not understand where we make the jump from Euclidean to non Euclidean geometry

This is what I mean by switching geometries. From what I can tell, you need at least 3 dimensions to have a surface that is not flat. You cant have the surface of the balloon without the inside. I know, I know 2-spheres and 3-spheres but are these not theoretical entities? Beside that, the universe certainly appears to have some depth. How is that like a surface?

I dont have a problem with the idea of expansion until you remove the idea of a center. Even if it is not expanding into anything it is still bigger than it was before. All the points are further away from any previous position.

What about when stuff like this happens?

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A 16-year-old Indian origin schoolboy in Germany has managed to crack puzzles that baffled the world of maths for more than 350 years, it was reported in London Saturday.

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I was just making the point that new truths can be extracted from existing knowledge.