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→The last sentence: makes sense but could be written better.
I guess it's the involuntary result of an edit war, but the last sentence: 'Interestingly, modern scientific ideas about the nature of the universe hypothesize that for any location, it appears that that location is at the center of this expansion.' doesn't make any sense to me.[[User:Leopeo|Leopeo]] 09:12, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
I guess it's the involuntary result of an edit war, but the last sentence: 'Interestingly, modern scientific ideas about the nature of the universe hypothesize that for any location, it appears that that location is at the center of this expansion.' doesn't make any sense to me.[[User:Leopeo|Leopeo]] 09:12, 6 May 2007 (EDT)
:I agree, it is a mildly awkward sentence. It made sense to me, but then, I already knew what it meant. The goal here, of course, is to make things clear to us when we ''don't'' know them. Let's try to think of a better way to say it? Here's a stab: "Interestingly, modern scientific ideas about the nature of the universe hypothesize that whatever location one is at, one appears to be the center of this expansion" Well, that gets rid of the double "that", which, while good English, can mess up the flow of a sentence. "This is because, since everything in the universe is flying apart from everything else, wherever one is, everything else appears to be moving directly away from one's location." There's a word for this, which is escaping me right now. I think it's ''isotropic'', and it is usually combined with one other word. Isotropic means, I'm pretty sure, that at a large enough scale, the universe looks the same from anywhere. I'll have to find the exact phrase that is used before attempting to make 'pedia text out of it, though. Oh, and it should also probably be its own paragraph. [[User:Human|Human]] 13:02, 6 May 2007 (EDT)