Re: Newbie Questions

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:02:04 +0100

Le 18-janv.-09, à 16:23, A. Wolf a écrit :

>
>> So you are saying the mass of the universe is infinite.
>
> I mean the number of particles is infinite (mass is a characteristic
> of some
> particles). It is still possible it could be finite but unbounded,
> and just
> extremely extremely large, but unless there's a logical reason it would
> appear perfectly flat this seems unlikely. So right now the consensus
> in
> the scientific community is "probably infinite".

Naive question: do physicists reconcile a "really flat" universe and
the big bang theory? I don't see how.
Any idea or references?

Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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