Reply #3: That is only assuming it is expanding...

[Solon]

uniformly. The most popular analogy is a blown up balloon, and that the universe expands like that. But what about mass disparaties and gravitational fluxes (Not to mention the possibility of Dark Matter and "Anti-Gravity"). Why would the Universe be symmetrical at all, maybe it is more like an Amoeba with tendrils outstretched at certain "Borders" and other irregularities. If that were true, then two points, perhaps very close together, relatively, could be accelerating away from each other at many times the speed of light, relative to each other. OK, brain just burned out, damn :) Perhaps the orgin of the Big Bang is no longer at the center at all anymore.