On Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 5:52:15 AM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: On Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 12:46:46 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: * >>I think all cosmologist, like Hartle, recognize that the observable universe was much smaller in the past. Which is perfectly compatible with the universe be spacially flat and infinite.* *> I fully anticipated that response. But why would the observable universe behave radically different from the entire principle, particularly in light of the Cosmological Principle? AG* *Because infinite things (like the entire universe)* *BS. You affirm categorically what you don't really know! AG* *have fundamentally different properties than finite things (like the observable universe). For example, a proper subset of the infinite set of all the integers (the even integers for example) can be placed in a one to one correspondence with the entire set of integers. You can't do that if the set of integers is finite. * *Now tell me something I don't know. BTW, the CC claims the properties of the universe are the same everywhere, but in the unobservable region the expansion is faster than light speed, which is why we can't observe it. So one could say the CC is violated. AG * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* eda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/86a774e5-cb50-4c78-b85e-beb00c2dc409n%40googlegroups.com.
