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Orphaned references in History of the Center of the Universe

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of History of the Center of the Universe's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "our_galaxy":

From Galaxy: Evans, J. C. (1998-11-24). "Our Galaxy". George Mason University. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
From Milky Way: Evans, J. C. (November 24, 1998). "Our Galaxy". George Mason University. Retrieved 2007-01-04.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:56, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Useful template for this article?

Hallo there,
please don't let me talk with a computer program (AnomieBOT)... are there human beings available?
I was wondering if the following template could be useful but I am kinda scared that smells like "geocentrism": any suggestions?

Or maybe these pictures could help us in understanding where is the "center of the universe"?

A diagram of our location in the observable universe. (Click here for an alternate image.)

Maurice Carbonaro (talk) 20:56, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adding the NavBox seems fine to me. Regards, RJH (talk) 16:39, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ... so I am going ahead and placing the navbox then.... now...what about inserting "Center of the Big Bang" somewhere in the article? Please could someone comment on this latter proposal? Thanks. M aurice Carbonaro

I removed a red link to Center of the Big Bang under See Also, because that is unlikely to ever be an article. Though I would support adding a section to this article similar to the section Big Bang that discusses the metric expansion of space, clarifying that the Big Bang has no centre.--Trystan (talk) 14:41, 21 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Centre

There is no mention of a rotational centre, a gravitational centre, nor a spatial centre.

It's my understanding that the universe is infinite (or "very, very large"). There is no "rotation" about any axis. There is no discernible axis. We are only aware of 48 billion light years distance. We believe (but cannot demonstrate) that there is more of the universe beyond those limits. While we can compute a centre for the observable universe (us!), we cannot answer these questions, which may have no answer. The ancients were essentially correct in thinking that the earth was the centre of the universe. Shift that to the centre of the Milky Way, and that is about as close as we can get, relatively speaking. Except astronomers don't believe that. It's too easy. Our universe appears to be extruding through dark matter away from all other points of the universe. Computing a centre is impossible. Student7 (talk) 15:19, 28 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Just realized that my answer crudely summarized the article! We would like to know/understand why this didn't come across in the explanation, so we might explain it better. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 21:22, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Norh East Kansas?

The opening paragraph of this article says that "recent astronomy and philosophy places the center of the universe in North East Kansas.

There is no reference to this ridiculous claim and it should be removed.

Martin Hughes (talk) 18:21, 23 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cannot revert vandalism

Could someone revert the recent vandalism for me? I am apparently not allowed to edit this article. Revert it to this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_center_of_the_Universe&oldid=1038002889 CaJoKa (talk) 23:49, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

v t e Location of Earth
Included	Earth → Solar System → Local Interstellar Cloud → Local Bubble → Gould Belt → Orion Arm → Milky Way → Milky Way subgroup → Local Group → Local Sheet → Virgo Supercluster → Laniakea Supercluster → Local Hole → Observable universe → Universe Each arrow (→) may be read as "within" or "part of".
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