Re: Mega-mega engineering?

Bradley Graham Weslake (bgw03@uow.edu.au)
Fri, 28 Nov 1997 19:20:14 +1100 (EST)


> Let's say the universe is closed. Is there any way we can make it open? I was
> thinking about reconfiguring the mass in it. (As you already know, I tend
> to side
> with the open universe side.)
>
> Daniel Ust
>
>

I dare say it would be a proposition for the topologists. The best way to
conceptualise an open universe in three dimensional space is by imagining
a "saddle". Changing from a closed universe to an open would be a similar
problem to morphing (for want of a better term) a sphere into a saddle.

Changing from an open to a closed universe is, of course, a nice thought
experiment but the most practically unlikely an engineering feat as has ever
been dreamed up!

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