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Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere

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On 2024-11-12 21:35:12 +0000, LaurenceClarkCrossen said:

> The Universe Is Not A Sphere

So it seems. However, the part of the Universe we can see looks,
except for minor irregularities, very similar to a small part of
a large sphere. But so does a small part of an Euclidean space.

> So, parallel lines on its surface do not meet.

The path of a photon is a special kind of straight line. Light from
certain quasars (e.g. SBS 0957+561) come to us over two paths so that
the same qasars can be seen in two directions. This shows that two
stright lines can cross twice. Somewhere between the two crossings
they look parallel.

-- 
Mikko

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The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-12 21:35 +0000
  Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere hertz778@gmail.com (rhertz) - 2024-11-12 22:24 +0000
    Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-12 22:57 +0000
      Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-12 15:14 -0800
        Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-12 23:45 +0000
        Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-11-24 09:53 +0100
          Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-24 10:16 -0800
            Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-24 12:28 -0800
            Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2024-11-26 10:27 +0100
              Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere (continuous domain, infinity and laws of large numbers) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-26 17:18 -0800
                Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere (continuous domain, infinity and laws of large numbers) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-27 10:07 -0800
                Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere (continuous domain, infinity and laws of large numbers) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 10:52 -0800
      Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2024-11-29 18:41 +0100
        Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere (doubling spaces, pi ratio spaces) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-29 10:48 -0800
          Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere (doubling spaces, pi ratio spaces) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-11-29 11:43 -0800
    Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-12 23:12 +0000
  Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2024-11-13 12:19 +0200
    Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-11-13 16:29 +0100
    Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-13 21:08 +0000
      Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> - 2024-11-14 11:42 +0200
        Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere Maciej Wozniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2024-11-14 15:16 +0100
    Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-14 04:24 +0000
    Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere clzb93ynxj@att.net (LaurenceClarkCrossen) - 2024-11-14 04:43 +0000
  Re: The Universe Is Not A Sphere bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertietaylor) - 2024-11-24 09:00 +0000

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