Talk:Location of Earth

message: I created this table after I heard an author on NPR say that her literary agent didn't know the difference between the solar system, the galaxy, and the universe, and asked her to write a book on the subject (which she did).  I looked at some of our articles, and as they were, I'm not sure they help all that much.  It's difficult for individual articles to put this information in context, so I'm creating this template to help do that. -- Beland (talk) 04:42, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't this replicate the function of  ? 76.66.196.139 (talk) 07:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Purpose

message: This template is the target of an "expand" link from Template:UniverseNavSmall.  There might be a better way to present this information, but this is what I came up with for a rough draft. I'm open to suggestions. -- Beland (talk) 23:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears to be an article masquerading as a template... Instead of a non-transcluded template, shouldn't this just be created as an article? 76.66.196.139 (talk) 07:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's now a full fledged article... 76.66.197.30 (talk) 02:27, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speedy delete disputed 

message: I've just been doing some maintenance of this article. If anyone disagrees with my changes, please let me know, as I can and will defend them.
Cheers. Frunk (talk) 10:58, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tidy up. 

message: now that this has been renamed, should the related  also be renamed, since there's no "big" one anymore. 76.66.197.30 (talk) 02:09, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That template is unnecessary; it says exactly the same thing as , which which is far prettier and less obstructive. I was, rather ironically, planning to nominate it for deletion.Serendipodous 10:21, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related 

message: This article is an excellent summary of the various levels and categories of space, as they relate to the earth, but I came to it hoping to learn whether earth is at the center or near the edge of the known universe, only to find that the question is not even addressed.
It would be useful to have it considered in the article, even if the answer is that we cannot know the answer.--71.242.167.95 (talk) 14:37, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: According to current theories in cosmology, the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that it has no "centre" and no "edge". Every point in the universe could be seen as the centre, just as every point on the surface of the Earth could be seen as the middle. Serendipodous 16:01, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  But does it live up to the title? 

message: it should also have a log scale for size. Nergaal (talk) 01:08, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: How should it be represented?Serendipodous 01:35, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

text: Log scale is added - column "(km, as a power of 10, Logarithmic scale)" Grillofrances (talk) 00:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: table

message: If the observable universe is a sphere at the "edges" of which we see a younger version of the universe (photon decoupling, close to the big bang, etc). This would mean the Earth is at the centre of this "sphere" of a certain diameter. Finite or infinite it is then an actual sphere towards the edges of which the "structure" of what we see changes, or begins to change.
If this sphere which is bounded by the structure changes occuring at its outer edges has a certain definite diameter in lightyears, putting the Earth at the center is a little weird.
This should be addressed as it is a basic question regarding Earth's position in the Universe, and the article makes no mention of it. (I.e. that the changes in structure at the edges of the observable Universe are equidistant in all directions. Puts Earth in the middle of everything)
:it says in the opener that astronomers usually place the Earth at the centre of the observable universe for convenience. Serendipodous 14:51, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Earth's position in relation to the observable universe

message: I feel that the multiverse should be added as it is a possibility and would impact cosmology.
In addition, I feel that this article could be part of a series of articles covering the scale of the Universe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AHumanEditor (talk • contribs) 00:50, July 29, 2017 (UTC)
:The multiverse is purely hypothetical. There is zero evidence for it. We mention the hypothetical possibility, but we don't need to include it in the table of Earth's position in the Universe. Meters (talk) 05:41, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiverse and scale of the Universe. 

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message: This is an issue that needs to be resolved, but I don't know how to do it. Since the discovery of Laniakea, we haven't really confirmed whether it replaced the Pisces-Cetus supercluster complex or subsumed it. Problem is, most of the references to the "Pisces Cetus supercluster complex" are from decades ago (it was first proposed in the 1980s and no one uses the term "supercluster complex" any more) so any references to Laniakea are likely to ignore it completely.Serendipodous 09:46, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pisces-Cetus supercluster complex