On Tue, 4 May 1999, Gale wrote: > Jacques M Mallah wrote: > > It never ceases to amaze me that many people who are adamantly > > opposed to the MWI accept an infinite universe without blinking an eye. > > This analogy also shows that the MWI is really a conservative hypothesis. > > That is quite interesting. Especially since priors on how a universe > might form tend to suggest finite universes. > > > Right. Although I suppose one could generalize the idea of a > > non-MWI infinite universe to include such things as Lee Smolin's universes > > that are produced by black holes. > > Current observations indicate that our universe is open and > > suggest that the expansion is accelerating. > > I read current findings as general agreement on a hyperbolic geometry > (with accelerating expansion even) but that whether this is associated > with a closed or open universe is still undecided.
That's interesting. I thought most people agreed that a non-collapsing universe would be open. It remains true, that many people believe that, but maybe not the most knowledgeable people. I don't really know that much about current hypotheses on universe formation ... - - - - - - - Jacques Mallah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Graduate Student / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate "I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum My URL: http://pages.nyu.edu/~jqm1584/