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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Peter Fairbrother   
   Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula   
   02 Feb 26 01:21:43   
   
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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:03:16 +0000, Peter Fairbrother wrote:   
      
   > Of course we don't know whether the universe is finite or not..   
      
   There are hints of more than one Big Bang, which may point to the   
   Universe being detectably larger than all the directly-observable   
   stars, galaxies etc.   
      
   By the way, an infinite Universe cannot have a nonzero mass density,   
   otherwise it will just collapse. So the mass distribution would have   
   to be fractal, with a Hausdorff dimension of (I think) 2 or less.   
   This would still allow for infinite total mass.   
      
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