I am by no means an expert, the most I can claim is to have studied first or
second year university level cosmology for the majority of last year. Most
learnings of which have drained into the undercurrent of my mind...
> Doesn't this contradict your initial statement?
No it does not. In the first instance I said that *observations* tend at this
stage to support an open universe. In the second instance I said that there
are many *theoretical* reasons for believing a closed universe is probable.
> >An open universe is just as intuitively pleasing - if only
> >to suggest that our notion of time is in some way accurate - that it does in
> >fact have some degree of linearity.
>
> On that last point, yes.
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> Daniel Ust
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