Re: Bjoern BBT flops yet again.



Ken S. Tucker wrote:

Personally, I don't believe space is infinite either but
what I believe and what is can be divergent.  :-)



It does not matter what I "believe", cosmology is not a
passion, (although science is an addiction :-).

Unless some final theory shows that it must be infinite, that it leads to contradiction, or some measurement requires it or rules it out, infinitude will always remain in the domain of belief.

What's important is to introduce theories that use the
science we know. By showing an infinite universe can
have a finite energy density, and appears as ours does,
accounting for the red-shift is reasonable, the laws hold,
in reasonable agreement with data.

This can show it is possible, perhaps, but do you think anything will ever show that it is true or required?


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

                                             A. Einstein
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