On 24 April 2014 04:25, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Samuel Clemens? Was is not Mark Twain? I missed a post perhaps. >
Oops. They are the same person (Twain was Clemens' pseudonym). I thought it was common knowledge, perhaps because I read the "Riverworld" series by Philip Jose Farmer. > > Do someone know the estimate of the age of the universe at the time of > Mark Twain? Einstein though it was infinite, and I thought that many > physicists (including believer in Big Bang(s)) don't exclude that. > > I think it was considered perhaps infinite, in that no one knew how long it had gone on and there was no obvious evidence of cosmological change - telescopes weren't good enough to even resolve stars in galaxies outside the Milky Way, I believe - but there was also no idea of processes lasting billions of years. Hence Twain's "hundred million" was about the largest size anyone could grasp, so it was in a sense akin to him saying infinity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
