SNIP
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>Not at all. Every point seems to be the center of the expansion.
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>This row of characters represents the universe when it was half the current age (assuming the expansion rate remains fixed - let's say this is an approximation); the "5" is our own galaxy, the other numbers are some other galaxies:
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>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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>And this is the current, further expanded, universe:
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>1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
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>Note that each galaxy sees the other galaxies receding.
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SNIP
Hmmm. While all are seen as receding, they are moving FROM somewhere. I would imagine that the exact point of the big bang HAS been caclulated. I just Googled the 'fact' that the big bang happened everywhere, all at once (there being no time and no "where" before it) but surely at the FIRST second (after it, I assume, the clock started) there was (then) a "where" that could be calculated.

Apparently the universe is not only expanding, but it is also accelerating in its expansion. If we could take a film of the thing and run it backwards, surely it would converge somewhere?!?! If it wouldn't, then "big bang" seems an inappropriate name for it.

In any case, I have a plausible answer to what got me started, so I best leace it for now.

Thanks