Physics

We have been talking about the Universe for a while in this course. We talk about it as if it was some sort of container which has inside all the matter and interactions we have been talking about, and in which the laws of physics are true. Nevertheless, there is interest in talking about the Universe itself, regardless of what it has inside it and what laws of physics rule in it.

In this way, you can think of the Universe as plain empty space. A huge empty room without anything inside, and without even walls. A room with no ends. But that room is all that exists: there is nothing outside; there is no outside of the room.

Having this in mind, in this assignment I want you to think about where the center of the Universe is. Different cosmological theories during human history have proposed different ideas: that it is at the center of the Earth, that it is at the center of the Sun. It could be at the center of our Galaxy. Maybe at the center of other galaxy, or other star. Maybe there is no center at all, or maybe the center of the Universe keeps moving around.

In around 250 words:

hypothesize about where the center of the Universe might be,
explain why you think that, and
explain if there is any way to check if your hypothesis is actually correct.