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|    Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula    |
|    02 Feb 26 01:21:43    |
      XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips       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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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