RE: Forget Flat Earth Theory, now we have Flat Universe Theory!
December 6, 2010 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2010 at 1:38 pm by Houston I Am.)
(December 6, 2010 at 5:16 am)Tiberius Wrote: Chuck, Houston I Am,
You are both technically wrong. Whilst something infinite cannot expand (since it already occupies infinite space, and therefore there is no space for it to expand into), the universe can be infinite. What is expanding is the observable universe, which is finite. Whatever is beyond the observable universe may be infinite, we just don't know.
Who says that this universe is the only universe? We can not be the only inhabited planet in this universe and this can not be the only universe to inhabit the totality of everything.
There are many theories, many theorists, and one is just as viable as another. Reality is that we could just be another atom in a bigger structure, with other atoms (solar systems & galaxies) within our space. Comets and asteroids just electrons moving in and out.
(December 6, 2010 at 5:37 am)Chuck Wrote:(December 5, 2010 at 11:57 pm)Houston I Am Wrote:(December 5, 2010 at 4:20 am)Chuck Wrote: Pray where did you study astronomy?
At a university, how about you?
Go to an accredited university. Or simply look on their astronomy department's web page.
I did go to an accredited university, maybe you should as well, since you did not answer my question.
