>Hmm, I *think* you mean something like this: the conceptualization of
>the closed universe will be something like a ball, inside a space of
>some kind. That space will be another universe, and so on. Am I right?
I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. An open universe is one
which keeps expanding indefinitely, whereas a closed one is one which
will expand to a certain point, and then begin to contract again.
Or is it me whose wrong? Some confusion here :-)
Robert Bricheno
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