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Re: How can the Universe be infinite if it was all concentrated into,a point at the Big Bang?

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On 11/12/2015 2:54 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>
>    How can the Universe be infinite if it was all concentrated into
>    a point at the Big Bang?
>  > http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/infpoint.html
>
>> The Universe was not concentrated into a point at the time of the Big
>> Bang. But the observable Universe was concentrated into a point. The
>> distinction between the whole Universe and the part of it that we can
>> see is important. In the figure below, two views of the Universe are
>> shown: on the left for 1 Gyr after the Big Bang, and on the right the
>> current Universe 13 Gyr after the Big Bang (assuming that the Hubble
>> constant is Ho = 50 km/sec/Mpc and the Universe has the critical
>> density.)
>
>

We don't know what the laws of physics are/were in that situation, so 
we've no way of reaching any conclusions about whether it's possible.

Sylvia.

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