(May 30, 2015 at 2:16 pm)Alex K Wrote: Pyrrho,
This is a question one has to remain agnostic about for the time being. All we know from observations of the microwave backgroubd is that it is at least a few times the size of the observable universe. My guess, which is more like a matter of taste, would be that it is finite and wrapped up, and that our visible universe is a super tiny patch of the whole. I would think that bc the observable universe looks geometrically flat, and that could be because we only observe a miniscule part of a curved whole.
Okay, I like the idea of an infinite universe. If it is a matter of taste, why not go big?
If you look again at the way I asked the question, you will see that I fully expected the answer to be a "best guess" (my words in my previous post) rather than something known.
It is good to know about the background radiation indicating that our universe is much larger than just what we can see.
Do you expect the revamped toy that is the subject of this thread to find anything that will tell us more about the size of the universe?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
