Is the earth is at the center of the universe? I developed this theory while working for the Army Corp of Engineers doing wave research. First - who am I? A retired 69 year old born on New Years Eve. My avocation was 40 years of Mass Spectrometers of all kinds. I was a consultant to the JPL on the first GCMS (Gas Chromatic Mass Spectrometer) that went to Mars a quarter century ago (Viking). I was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Back to my wave research. If you take an object and drop it in still water, you will see ripples. Watch the waves carefully. You will notice that the outer most ripple disappears and a new ripple (wave) forms on the inside. As these wave circles move out, the speed of the group is one half of the speed of an individual wave. That is because as mentioned, the outer wave vanishes and transfers its energy to the new wave formed on the inside. This energy transfer is important to understand. Watch an object on the water as waves pass. Not at the shore as this is different. As waves move, the water does not, only the energy. So a stick might move up and down as the wave passes, but the stick does not move horizontally with the wave. Yes it would if there were currents, but this is without currents. How does this have anything to do with the universe? Or the Earth being at the center. I am getting there. First - back to the water. Go to a still pond. Now we will use 2 stones. Drop them at a good distance. Watch these 2 groups of wave circles pass each other. They do not collide, but pass through each other as thou the 2 groups had no effect on each other. Now to the stars. I was the State Representative of the New Jersey chapter of AARG (American Astronomical Research Group). Let’s start out with the most powerful telescopes on or off the earth. How far can they see in any direction, no mater in which direction they look? About 13 billion light years. Does this not put the earth at the center? What if we were at an object 10 billion light years from here and did the same observation. Or from anywhere in the universe. The farthest objects would again be about 13 billions light years away. Yes, every object is at the center of the universe. What do we see when looking at the farthest objects? Objects releasing tremendous energy. What is this energy? It is the object transferring its mater via energy to the center of the universe. But wait a minute. Did I not say we were at the center? Yes, but not in the same dimension. Is this theory any more strange then the belief of Black Holes or the string theory? Where mater is sucked in and goes to another dimension. Also remember that these objects are 13 billion light years away. So even if they were in our dimension, by the time they got here via energy transfer, we would not be here. And remember those water waves passing each other without affecting each other. So for now I will conclude saying, every place in the universe is at the center relatively speaking. Is this another part of the "Relative Theory"? Maybe.
Lloyd Friedman
