03-09-2005
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| Thinking Join Date: Jul 2004
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 | Is our universe smaller then we may think? We only know what we can observe. So is it possible that our universe is like a "house of mirrors" where our 2 dimensional universe has curves interwoven into space time, so it appears that we live in a 3 dimension + time universe? http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/universe A "strange string of galaxies 300 million light-year long that defy current theories about the evolution of the universe shortly after the Big Bang." These galazies are about 10 billion light years away. - The point being that there would not be enough time to create these galaxies in this short period of time from the Big Bang. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publ...tronomers.html This time problem may indicate that the universe as we observe it may be folded from a 2 dimensional universe, and much smaller then we think. Last edited by pie; 03-09-2005 at 09:55 PM. |
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| Thinking  Join Date: Mar 2005
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| Re: Is our universe smaller then we may think? One of the things I like about hypography.com is the different specialties meeting. I don't know how credible the parallel universe theory is in scientific circles, but if true it renders the expression 'The Universe' uh ... meaningless !?? |
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| Ancora Imparo      Sponsor  | Re: Is our universe smaller then we may think? Such a universe is said to be hypersphererical, or hypercylindrical. So you could fly in the same direction through the universe and end up back where you started. just like on earth you can sail on our oceans and not notice that you are actually curving back towards your starting point!
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| Exhausted Gondolier   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: isolated from the world
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I see space being the hypersurface of an expanding hypersphere as a far more reasonable model than: Quote:
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| Explaining  Join Date: Nov 2004
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| Coincidence of Molecules  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Arlington, TX
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| Re: Is our universe smaller then we may think? The doughnut hole? MMMMMMMMM doughnut........
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| Hypographer    | Re: Is our universe smaller then we may think? Quote:
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