Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.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, 11 Nov 2015 15:16:49 -0600 Message-ID: <5643B049.145B@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:16:57 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: INFINITY References: <5642F478.55FD@ix.netcom.com> <1wK0y.57106$WF.55681@fx30.iad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-va1xzsuO3aBZQQFOiZGlGMouJo8CZl8W/j3nsbhaNqBD+yqMCsTioFrm1oqbsj4Y1yblCxvjUQqo56z!YS3F09BTSa5UiXYrWcuCXmes9GIN+oaOQRwUxmGFK57s3xIy0yUMRDSv/DUIREOFYMxCIv6w9rVh!lSdPvuQc 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: 2349 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:278966 rec.arts.sf.written:426113 sci.physics:532194 sci.physics.relativity:369699 benj wrote: > > On 11/11/2015 09:40 AM, Sam Wormley wrote: > > On 11/11/15 8:20 AM, HVAC wrote: > >> The universe is finite yet unbounded. Since objects near the end of > >> our ability to see are moving away from us at speeds approaching > >> light, this effectively makes the universe, to us, infinite > >> > > > > Well... we could quibble about *why* the universe might be infinite. > > Many a physicist argue the the overall flatness of the universe is > > a dead giveaway that it is infinite. But I'd settle for Huge! > > Actually Sam, for once you are right...sort of. Universe is HUGE and > finite, but not flat. It only appears flat to us because our instruments > are not sensitive enough to measure the tiny curvature. > More information being posted in my threads...i will not stand for it. Get this straight for once and for all.. The universe is flat, not curved...it is only curved...mathematically. I don't allow misinformation being spread in my threads...do it on ohter threads where people don't care if children are reading misinformation. (sorry kids, a lot of inconsiderate people are out there)