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   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn to casagiannoni@optonline.net   
   Re: Universe - Important Characteristics   
   09 Feb 26 00:11:13   
   
   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:   
   > Obviously infinite in all time and space, since it includes   
   > everything.   
      
   We do not know either for sure.  The measurement uncertainties too large,   
   and probably ever will be (it is impossible to distinguish by a measurement   
   a flat universe with possibly infinite extent from an open universe with   
   possibly infinite extent and a closed universe with finite extent if that   
   universe is large enough.   
      
   > Expansion makes no sense.   
      
   It does.  The radiation temperature in an expanding universe is decreasing   
   with time and its exhibits cosmological redshift -- precisely what we   
   observe with the CMB and the distance--redshift relation of distant galaxies.   
      
   > Never was any Big Bang.   
      
   There is ample evidence for the Big Bang, i.e. that our universe is   
   expanding.  Your ignorance of the facts does not change the facts.   
   You are entitled to your own opinion, but NOT to your own facts.   
      
   > Wasn't created in any usual sense,   
      
   Nobody claimed it was, certainly the Big Bang theory does not make this   
   claim; but it can have been created (i.e. it can be a cosmological   
   experiment or a simulation by more advanced lifeforms).   
      
   > but always was and always will be.   
      
   We do not know that.   
      
   > No God.   
      
   Possible.  Again, the Big Bang theory is not concerned with that question,   
   neither is cosmology.   
      
   > Since it includes everything, there can be only one.   
      
   /Ex falso quodlibet./   
      
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