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Re: Open universe? [Was "expansion of the universe"]



In a message dated 3/17/02 12:30:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jsd@MONMOUTH.COM writes:

<< But wait a minute! What is the
evidence that the universe had size=0 at t=0?
I don't think there is any such evidence. All
we have is evidence that the universe had pretty
high density and pretty high temperature back when
t was small, but more than that we cannot say.
AFAIK the evidence is perfectly compatible with
the notion that the high-temperature high-density
universe was already infinite in extent. >>
Very Interesting way of looking at this. The above is a good point too.
String theory postulates that scales much below the string scale have no
physical meaning. So based on this theory, we are prohibited from assuming a
size 0.

Bob Zannelli