anigma46- First, the age is approximate. Astronomer Wendy Friedman estimates an age of 12 billion years for our universe.<br /><br />It is also interesting that many astronmers assume our galaxy has a radius greater than 13 billion light years, and that the initial expansion at inflation was faster than light!<br /><br />As for a center, consider this model:<br /><br />(Isaiah 40:22) There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are as grasshoppers, the One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell,<br /><br />In this stretching fine gauze model the fabric of space is expanding with its threads and filaments- it is similar to how astronomers illustrate the nature of our universe and how it is expanding or stretching out.<br /><br />Picture an expanding cloth with points on it. Each point will expand from each other point, and further points will expand faster. Where is the center?<br /><br />This is what is observed to be happenning on the grand scale.<br /><br />If you delve deeper into Biblical astronomy you will note that some of the bonds break while others hold fast - this is why our local section of the fabric of space is not expanding and over 1,000 galaxies are heading for the Great Attractor, more or less, including our Milky Way.<br /><br />Now, in this illustration, any point would seem like the center provided we cannot see the edge.<br /><br />And we cannot see the edge.<br /><br />The center is actually the location of the big bang, and that location is not merely distance, but actually space-time!<br /><br />BTW, this stretching fabric model is basically a flat model, some what different from the balloon model.<br />I do not know if there is a center in simple distance.<br /><br />As for an edge, note this statement:<br /><br />(Jude 13) . . .stars with no set course, for which the blackness of darkness stands reserved forever.<br /><br />Some astronomers feel that outer port