ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[David Casseres]

As I understand it, the "spot" is everywhere in the universe.  It's like the
Kabbalist description (quoted by Borges) that God is an infinite circle
whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

On 4/6/07, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/5/07, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.org> wrote:
> >
> >  > And we're talking about travel through universal  space relative to
> some starting point?
> >
> > No. There is no such thing as a starting point. That is the hardest part
> to grasp, for me, anyway. The universe has no edge. At least that is the
> situation currently. Perhaps tomorrow or next week cosmologists will
> hypothesize an edge and a starting point.
>
> Hmm...  I was under the impression that the starting point of the
> universe was the "spot" where the Big Bang occurred, and that Hubble
> allows us to peer back in time to the early days after that Bang
> (although I've no idea what direction one should point the telescope).
> I was also under the impression that the universe does have an edge,
> like a great big expanding bubble, and that until recently one working
> theory was that at some point the expanding point the universe would
> stop expanding and begin to contract, until it was once again a single
> mass waiting to do another Big Bang, thus forming an eternal
> expand/contract cycle.  But the current thought is that it will only
> continue to expand and cool, with Entropy ruling all.  The funny thing
> about this current single Big Bang theory is that it implies (to me)
> that there was/is some Creator that started it all.  The previous
> expand contract cycle theory implied (to me) that "Nature" was eternal
> and needed no Creator.
>
> David Morris
>
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