Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!.POSTED.108.219.229.47!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: The Shape of the Universe. Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:07:45 -0700 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: <5ADA1E61.2324@ix.netcom.com> References: <5AD6E787.5457@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: adenine.netfront.net; posting-host="108.219.229.47"; logging-data="59875"; mail-complaints-to="news@netfront.net" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 180420-2, 04/20/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:490769 sci.physics:681775 sci.physics.relativity:456496 alt.astronomy:298189 casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote: > > The Universe means by definition EVERYTHING, so it doesn't have a > shape, in any reasonable sense. > > If e.g. you say it's a sphere, then outside the sphere is by > definition also part of the universe, hence the whole has no shape. Well, 'these people' in the scientific community view the universe as everything in the big bang. I cannot get pass their...groupthink mentality. I have to work with it...it's first grade science. I'll lose them if I start teaching second grade science... The only thing they understand is...pizza. Now class...i got a slice of pizza in my hand, it has a curve on it... Like...How Come?