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Is it generally agreed among the people here that the universe is expanding? (I would say "expanding in size," but if the universe is infinite in size then that would make no sense.) Among those of you who are "expansionists," is it generally agreed that the expansion taking place within any...

If the universe is indeed infinite --- and I believe it is --- then probability essentially becomes meaningless.

Chalnoth, when you use the phrase, "such a hypothesis doesn't help us uncover the process by which our universe came about," you at least hint at the idea of creation. It makes one tend to believe that you believe that "our universe" is not infinitely old and that we are not wasting our time...

No evidence of what? I am --- or was --- a trial lawyer. I really like evidence, but it must be evidence of something.

I don't recall trying to compare the raisinbread universe idea to any religious concept. I think that must have been someone else. I am not at all religious. I think every religion that I have ever heard of is superstition.

I apoloigize for bringing up the idea of the raisinbread universe. I didn't mean to get people fighting with one another.

Chalnoth, No one involved in this discussion has so far made a claim that there was "intentionality" involved in the creation of the universe. I do not believe the universe was ever created. I believe it is probably infinitely old and without spatial boundaries. Teleology is not involved...

My own particular region of the universe --- the region of me --- was started off, I am dead sure, by my father and my mother nearly seventy-two years ago. Whether or not they decided to start it off, I cannot say for certain. They never confided in me about such matters. I am not lacking...

Dead sure! Wow! While I have access to your dead sure self, let me ask: Did the universe have a beginning, or has it always existed? Some people have a very difficult time conceiving that something could possibly exist without first being created by someone or something. Creation without...

When you say "I would be wrong," how sure are you that I am wrong, on a scale of one to ten, with ten being dead sure? Thank you for the link to the primer on the Big Bang. I'm sure you know that the term "Big Bang" originated with Fred Hoyle.

That is an interesting article about the "new" radiation recently detected, but I was referring to the radiation detected by Penzias and Wilson that so many people believe --- and some say know --- is an echo of the Big Bang. I don't believe it is, but most others disagree. I think ---...

Sylas, Do you have any notion about what that faint, pervasive radio signal is? Cheers --- LtDan

Well the raisinbread universe theory is certainly speculative, although I think it makes a good bit of sense and isn't, therefore, "overly speculative." Sylas, regarding "dark energy" driving galaxies apart from one another, do you think that the faint radio signal that seems to come from...

Hi Sylas, Whose raisinbread universe is it, anyway? If I make up a raisinbread hypothetical universe, I'm the one who gets to say whether or not the raisins rise just like the dough. And I say they rise! If the univrese is expanding --- and it sure does seem that it is --- then why...

When you say "the Earth is not expanding," you forget that in our hypothetical raisinbread universe all matter expands. Leaving hypothesis behind for a moment, I believe that the planet does, in many respects, behave as if it is expanding in size. Tectonic movements of the crustal plates...