On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 3:34 PM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> wrote:
> For an accelerated expansion of the sphere there is a cosmological > horizon that one can't cross. in other words, the sphere will keep > expanding faster than you can ever go. Think of the scene in the movie "*The > Shining*" with Jack Nicholson where the hotel hallway telescoped away > faster than he could run. > OK. But in that case in what sense could it be said that such a universe is "closed"? It seems to me if the expansion is accelerating I'll never get back to where I started no matter how far I go even if it's spherically curved as you say. John K Clark > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3B1ZXScyHF_8S6b%3DeoM%3DrNWymX4K0RcN%2BtzEn3v--S%2BA%40mail.gmail.com.
