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Re: how big is the universe?



Joe Zorzin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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> "Ed Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> I think when they say "infinite" they mean just that - goes on forever
>> and ever without end.
[...] 
> Since the universe was once very small, and as it grew, it must have been
> finite- how does something go from being finite to infinite? 

It can't, and it doesn't.


> Or, does the model say that it was infinite from the beginning, and what
> does that really mean?

See <http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/infpoint.html>.


-- Gordon D. Pusch   

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