RE: Question for Atheists
January 31, 2014 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2014 at 1:08 pm by Alex K.)
(January 31, 2014 at 11:49 am)StuW Wrote:(January 31, 2014 at 11:13 am)ThePinsir Wrote: There are what, 100 billion+ stars in our galaxy, and 100zillion galaxies in the observable universe? To think we're somehow special and have a "purpose" is arrogant, and IMO, wrong.
Here, let me enhance the point you're making....
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/201...lar-1.html
Quote:The Vardanyan model says that the curvature of the Universe is tightly constrained around 0. In other words, the most likely model is that the Universe is flat. A flat Universe would also be infinite and their calculations are consistent with this too. These show that the Universe is at least 250 times bigger than the Hubble volume. (The Hubble volume is similar to the size of the observable universe.)
It is not true that a spatially exactly flat universe would have to be spatially infinite.There are suitable flat manifolds of finite size, e.g. the three-dimensional torus (S^1)^3