Re: Re: Re: Evidence: Open vs. Closed Universe
Bradley Graham Weslake (bgw03@uow.edu.au)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:56:55 +1100 (EST)
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> Anders Sandberg writes
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> >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?
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> 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.
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> Or is it me whose wrong? Some confusion here :-)
You are correct, but Anders was making a guess at what this "infinite
regression fallacy" is, and why it is a faulty argument. He was not
trying to explain a closed universe.
> Robert Bricheno
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> bricher@msmsd2.hoechst.com
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