Yup, been doing it all my life....

can't honestly say I'm any more knowledgeable after a lifetime of reading about it however. Like I said, I get brief moments of clarity, understanding, but it doesn't stick very well.

Gonna run this by ya... love to ask a true astro-physicist this question.... even though I'd get laughed at.

Now I have to preface so it's not taken the wrong way.... which would be thinking I'm going back to the "Earth Was The Center Of The Universe", or thinking that's true for the same reasons people of old thought it was true...

But, this might sound like I'm saying that.... but believe me, I'm looking at it purely with the law of physics in mind... no myths, no lore.

Here it is... why isn't saying the earth is the center of the universe as legitimate as saying any other place in the universe is the center? Even more radical.... why aren't *I" the center, and all revolves around me? You could say the same... actually any spot in the universe could make that claim.... a tortoise in the sea, a rock caught between Pluto and Neptune, an atom floating midway between Adromeda and the Milky way.... wouldn't any one of those have AS legitimate a claim for being the 'center'?

Now sure, we can set an arbitrary starting point and then measure from there.... but what makes any arbitrary point in the universe any more legitimate than another point?

Things like that keep me up at night.