Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:47:38 -0500 Message-ID: <56359979.2036@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:47:53 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Why is the universe flat? References: <562EACBB.2E0C@ix.netcom.com> <562ED4ED.7A49@ix.netcom.com> <473149b6-263d-4753-a986-73924a92b928@googlegroups.com> <562EE0FB.5CFA@ix.netcom.com> <3dcfe3c4-3c57-48c2-9e13-2ccc83ce22ad@googlegroups.com> <54d3b48a-fa95-4761-bde7-9e220b3f5884@googlegroups.com> <6e5c0ead-e1ec-4e7e-b42a-e33086b0766c@googlegroups.com> <39817069-f8e4-4931-9dd1-5b7167770ab3@googlegroups.com> <562FF9FE.6AD2@ix.netcom.com> <6147c7d4-fdb2-4532-99ea-55c34d12bef4@googlegroups.com> <5631C59D.6CB5@ix.netcom.com> <5631CE38.548C@ix.netcom.com> <5631CEEB.5F0D@ix.netcom.com> <5631D50E.6CE9@ix.netcom.com> <9dc793a9-abb5-4fcb-9023-d7769a661710@googlegroups.com> <56351D7D.4DA4@ix.netcom.com> <58480c77-eefc-4efa-8b73-06c0f0af93b0@googlegroups.com> <5582ce0c-ecae-414f-89c9-321d81df9526@googlegroups.com> <5b49359f-ccf2-41ad-9d54-73ff5c9177da@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 72 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-CcASopJnlUGOVfAMegBPZOPh5MFM1aYLJ/DXBQhRaRcQDDE2nEAttWtSsIRGN4xJ84P21YbZj5FIAdC!fG14t46lGUkFQZsYRD3dGAj/COddJZlSQlUNhBcewDn6frqV/gJhpPdO+OLvzKA9ez/1aSmL8txa!0i3DCqfI X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4126 X-Received-Bytes: 4238 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1317999008 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:529620 Ross A. Finlayson wrote: > > On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 2:42:02 PM UTC-7, reber g=emc^2 wrote: > > On Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 1:25:32 PM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote: > > > On 10/31/15 2:01 PM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote: > > > > No, that the universe is infinite > > > > is courtesy deductive inference. > > > > > > Perhaps a refresher: > > > > > > Why is the universe flat? > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTUsOWtxKKA > > > > > > > > > > Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by > > > > cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental > > > > questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon > > > > Problem and the Flatness Problem. > > > > > > > > The universe seems infinite to us because its so big,and getting bigger at am accelerating rate.Its inflating however that makes it finite.Sad but reality. TreBert > > Expansion can be seen as an experimental effect. > > The farther you look, the more there is, > the closer you look, the smaller things are. the smaller things are, the closer you look.. and the farther you look ...closer, the more there is in the smaller things there are. The more things there are, the closer you look.. and the farther you look ...closer, the more there is in the smaller things. > > Still, there is besides the astronomical / > cosmological measurements the simple expansion > of light's travel over time, again this has to > be balanced with, for example, that galaxy > distribution is uniform (no apparent origin of > the Universe / the Universe and its origin is > everywhere). > > So, light's travel over time, since the Big Bang > then as regards to heat and cold death or entropy, > (or the gradient), still sees that space is > pretty much isotropic in the large and the uniform > and the regular. > > Again, this is opinion, neatly a theoretical > opinion, for a theoretical mathematical physics.