Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Gravity creates Entropy Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <461d2abb-7e39-4906-af92-dd00dd079dbd@googlegroups.com> <935f3e79-c4a8-4acf-a901-0fe4f8065818@googlegroups.com> <6e6fc02a-c67c-432c-b558-d8c49d9d24c0@googlegroups.com> <4dbed79c-275c-4e61-a352-87d9a80665b1@googlegroups.com> <65d7e776-45f0-4d81-b1a6-ca32665b6f77@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1441975053 3493 192.74.137.71 (11 Sep 2015 12:37:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:37:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:520268 john writes: >What about Olber? What about Olber. He argued the sky would be ablaze if the universe was infinite. This does not imply the converse, the universe having an infinity of black holes because the sky is dark. >Go far enough through enough >"tiny" BHs, you have to hit one. >And like you say, nothing else >absorbs neutrinos. But there is no infinity of "tiny" black holes. >So all of them HAVE to hit one. Why? >UNLESS the Universe is not >infinite The universe has a visible radius of c* the time since the Big Bang. (actually Olber was correct. The sky _is_ ablaze -- just that the light has been redshifted to absurdity. The cosmic background radiation!)