# Do we have any way of knowing where the Milkyway way is with respect to the Big Bang singularity?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-way-of-knowing-where-the-milkyway-way-is-with-respect-to-the-big-bang-singularity/750064 "2016-03-24T23:30:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-way-of-knowing-where-the-milkyway-way-is-with-respect-to-the-big-bang-singularity/750064/61 "2016-03-31T12:30:15Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Certainly some of us ants aren’t humble enough to appreciate it. These conceited ants tend to think things like that all of the answers can be found in one single ant-book, or in the words of one particular very wise ant. The humble ants, however, go into science to appreciate just how much more there is that they don’t know.

That’s the kind of blasphemous thinking that gets one stepped on, you know.

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**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-any-way-of-knowing-where-the-milkyway-way-is-with-respect-to-the-big-bang-singularity/750064/62 "2016-03-31T15:27:52Z")

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> [@Nansbread1](#):
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> We make a big deal of the big bang and postulate grandiosely about dark eneregy and dark matter. As someone said few posts earlier it could be all wrong. Scientists know that. I dont think some on here are humble enought to appreciate it.

The “dark” of “dark matter” and “dark energy” is basically a statement of humility. It says, “we don’t know anything about this other than the specific effects that we observe”.

What would be non-humble would be to call it “unicorn poop” or “the effect of angels pushing things apart as they flee from unwed teenage mothers” because that implies a lot more knowledge that we actually have.

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