Re: Our Expanding Universe

From: Jonathan Silverlight (jsilverlight_at_spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 12/06/04


Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:28:50 +0000

In message <cp1gvk$1l$1@news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>, Bjoern Feuerbacher
<feuerbac@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de> writes
>Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>> Does it contain any matter (and if it does, in what form -- the
>> original particles having been squeezed down to zero size)?
>
>We don't know. The physics we have today does not work at such
>scales.
>
>BTW, according to the physics we have today, the elementary particles
>already *have* zero size.
>
Isn't that true only of the electron? (and arguably not even then. The
electron doesn't have infinite density, for instance) I thought
particles such as protons had an effective diameter.



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