On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 12:46:46 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: > > * >>I think all cosmologist, like Hartle, recognize that the observable > universe was much smaller in the past. Which is perfectly compatible with > the universe be spacially flat and infinite.* > > > *> I fully anticipated that response. But why would the observable > universe behave radically different from the entire principle, particularly > in light of the Cosmological Principle? AG* > *Because infinite things (like the entire universe) have fundamentally different properties than finite things (like the observable universe). For example, a proper subset of the infinite set of all the integers (the even integers for example) can be placed in a one to one correspondence with the entire set of integers. You can't do that if the set of integers is finite. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* eda > > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1kAwSEji4ZNWrGbZ8q7czuLGKoV_oVH11P06dnEPCUzQ%40mail.gmail.com.
