Could we actually fight a war against an alien race?

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drkohler said:

superchunk said:

drkohler said:

sapphi_snake said:

superchunk said:

2) Big Bang started at a single point and spread out over an endless vacuum of space. This means that solar systems/planets closest to the point of origin would be vastly older than systems further out.

Great post! Especially point 2, which I wanted to address myself.

Please do so. But correctly, most of 2) is wr

I like learning new things... please point out what is wrong. I wrote it in a general sense as I know in everything there are extremes, however, if I'm wrong about these generalities of Big Bang, let me know.

This is not the place for astrophysics but just two things (crudely simplified for shortness):

a) there is no "endless vacuum of space" - outside of our universe, there is nothing. It is space itself that is expanding. Yes we use the "inflatable balloon with dots on it" to demonstrate how galaxies' distancies all get bigger. Good model but incorrect.

b) there can't be areas where everything is older. Otherwise astronomers would be able to locate the center of the universe. Big bang created all the matter there is (after a sequence of stuff happened etc etc) so every point in space could be the site of the very first star (again confirming there is no way of finding the center of the universe).

On B.  Shouldn't that which moves out farther be moving faster and therefore aging slower?

We probably could find the center of the universe... if we had better technology.