Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.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: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:25:46 -0600 Message-ID: <563ACC57.63ED@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:26:15 -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: Some Facts about Space, Time and Infinity References: <782dneKkEqmth6vLnZ2dnUU7-SudnZ2d@giganews.com> <8OadnZXPpr_h_6vLnZ2dnUU7-X2dnZ2d@giganews.com> <250d3bhbttdblk1c6pdpdrlo1o6eekvglu@4ax.com> <9ute3btuoj7n1g2nfonnsgghf0eaap3f9h@4ax.com> <91gf3b1073u9v03ejqdclsqv3ai7d9c32u@4ax.com> <956b06d2-95d2-4fdf-9ec8-7245c4e1f72c@googlegroups.com> <63c0fed5-65bb-4a1b-a364-d0d9870fef60@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 38 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-adDSzzu2XXtQqBanLYHwVXtLTt+ulCnwMhndPnimy3s/TbS3/cVTQfaLjHARm3fLdl5oeSVJQvhrMpd!XuHSeY97N3819r1UsqSkga+ImWLQoE0Mi4znzpMDAMMQfhCmDhhq0b7J/A8w1SIz9V31EJA1jjM7!C4ikh8U1 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: 3185 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:530491 Ross A. Finlayson wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 9:42:53 AM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote: > > On 11/4/15 8:07 AM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote: > > > I wonder how you'd entertain that gravity is > > > actually repulsive from the edges of the universe, > > > and that mass occludes it as a force, so, then > > > objects are drawn together locally as the block > > > each other out (then that this matches attractive > > > gravity up to basically the same sphere of influence). > > > Then gravity is a feature of the substrate instead of > > > the bodies, which are defined by the nuclear force(s). > > > > > > I hate to break this to you, Ross, but the universe doesn't > > have edges. > > > > No Center > > http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/nocenter.html > > http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/infpoint.html > > > > Also see Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial > > http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm > > http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html > > http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html > > > > WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory > > http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html > > > > WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology > > http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html > > > > The universe is effectively infinite and unbounded, yes. You mean mathematically speaking and philoshphy speaking, but it sure ain't Science speaking.