Recent content by Tomon

Thanks for your reply. The problem came up for me because I was thinking about the possibility the universe is in an infinite loop of expanding and contracting (the closed model) since the first time ´once´ in the ´past´ . Looking at this theory, I was thinking about the number of times the...

When I pick a random number on a number line made out of integers, starting from zero and expanding infinite to the right, what can I say about the position of this random number ? To the right the amount of numbers is infinite. To the left is an amount, a number, so that is finite, but it has...

In the light of this all, I have a question regarding the travel of light since the beginning of the universe. I thought about opening a new topic for it, but maybe I can post the question here. People talk about the light traveling 13 or so billion years to reach us when we look as far as we...

I am a retired IT specialist from the Netherlands, I have no scientific background, but was always interested in physics, astronomy etc. You get the picture. I joined this forum to be able to hopefully get some feedback about something which puzzles me for some time, and besides that, this forum...