From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:39:52 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
      
   > "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   > news:pan.2005.01.26.08.03.26.108912@edenroad.demon.co.uk...   
   >> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:12:06 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The "stuff we can't see" is considered to be outside the "Hubble   
   >> Universe"; which is the subset of the, possibly greater, universe that   
   >> will never have any effect on us, since we can't interact with it.   
   >   
   > Ahhh, but ... WHAT IF?!?!?!?  the outside universe is so immense that there   
   > is, at *this very moment*, a geometrically progressing (exponential) "Big   
   > Crush" that is headed straight for us?  A day ago, it was billions of   
   > light-years outside of our visible spectrum, yet today, it is on the *very   
   > edge* of our visible spectrum, and tomorrow, it will be only 1 parsec   
   > away... etc.   
      
   If it's outside the Hubble radius, it'll never get here, since beyond the   
   radius, space is expanding faster than light.   
      
   It's like trying to run up the down escalator.   
      
   :-)   
      
   >   
   > I'm beginning more and more to agree with the concept that quantum mechanics   
   > have, if nothing else, helped further the cause that God exists... "no one   
   > knows, not even the Son of Man, when the End Days shall arrive" (or   
   > something to that effect).   
      
   I think that's more to do with your sketchy understanding of QM.   
      
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