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Re: Hubble breaks cosmic distance record

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Odd Bodkin wrote:

> On 3/4/2016 9:21 AM, john wrote:
>> There is no "edge" to the Universe.
>> It is infinite in extent.
> 
> How do you know that it extends infinitely?

,-<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size_and_regions>
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| […]
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| Observations, including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Wilkinson 
| Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), and Planck maps of the CMB, suggest 
| that the Universe is infinite in extent with a finite age, as described by 
| the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) models.[44][45][46][47]
| […]
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| [44] “Will the Universe expand forever?”, WMAP website at NASA.
|      <http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html>
| [45] Luminet, Jean-Pierre; Weeks, Jeffrey R.; Riazuelo, Alain;
|      Lehoucq, Roland; Uzan, Jean-Philippe (2003-10-09).
|      "Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle
|      temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background".
|      Nature 425 (6958): 593–5. arXiv:astro-ph/0310253.
|      Bibcode:2003Natur.425..593L. doi:10.1038/nature01944. PMID 14534579.
| [46] Roukema, Boudewijn; Zbigniew Buliński; Agnieszka Szaniewska; Nicolas 
|      E. Gaudin (2008). "A test of the Poincare dodecahedral space topology 
|      hypothesis with the WMAP CMB data". Astronomy and Astrophysics 482 
|      (3): 747–753. arXiv:0801.0006. Bibcode:2008A&A...482..747L. 
|      doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20078777.
| [47] Aurich, Ralf; Lustig, S.; Steiner, F.; Then, H. (2004). "Hyperbolic 
|      Universes with a Horned Topology and the CMB Anisotropy". Classical
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|      Bibcode:2004CQGra..21.4901A. doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/21/010.


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