Nobody tell the Christians....

[mathemajician]

... but there is experimental evidence suggesting that the earth really could be at the centre of the universe.

From this article:
...when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy

Comments

[radiantsun]

It just looks that way because I am the center of the universe.

[botrytis]

No! I'm the centre of the Universe

[mathemajician]

Look, you're the centRE of the universe, and she's the centER of the universe.

See. Totally different things. Paradox resolved.

[ghoulchick]

Eeee! Very cool. But I thought everywhere was the center, so to speak. Like we're not expanding away from a center, everything's expanding away from everything else, like raisins in a loaf of baking bread. (No, I don't actually know what I'm talking about. Just saying what I remember reading somewhere.)

[mathemajician]

Yes, very cool. Unfortunately I don't really understand all this cosmology stuff...

[gustavolacerda]

Do you understand the argument that you're quoting? If so, I'd be delighted to have it explained.

How good is this correlation? And what is it a correlation of?

[mathemajician]

I don't understand it at all... but it does sound kind of weird and interesting.