The Cosmic Selfie Paradox

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The Cosmic Selfie Paradox

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Of course Earth is at the center of the observable universe! That's like being shocked you're at the center of your own selfie! 📸

The cosmic microwave background (that gorgeous purple cosmic web) looks the same in all directions because—PLOT TWIST—the observable universe is literally defined as everything we can see from Earth! It's a giant cosmic sphere with us at the center because light has only had 13.8 billion years to reach us since the Big Bang.

Poor Aristotle getting dragged into this! He thought Earth was the center of EVERYTHING, not just our observation bubble. The universe keeps expanding while we're stuck here wondering if we're special. Spoiler alert: we're not! Just victims of perspective!

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