From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 15:41:13 MST
I'm not au fait with current thinking but there was one of course in the
Bondi/Hoyle/Gold steady state cosmology. I think (as a rank amateur) that
the BB theory is starting to show the signs of a failing model (i.e.
significant empirical data that the model has trouble explaining leading to
moves to make the theory increasingly complex to account for it - the
epicycle syndrome). I've no idea though of whether any emergent alternative
is around. If there is one it will probably appear very suddenly as far as
visibility in the public domain is concerned. Steve Davies
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 7:28 PM
Subject: Cosmology Question
> Are there reputable cosmological theories that allow
> within our own universe infinitely many galaxies?
>
> (By reputable, I mean held by twenty percent or more
> of physicists, and by "our universe" I am excluding
> other universes in the MWI sense and am excluding
> other "islands" in Tegmark configurations. I mean:
> though our *visible* universe extends merely 10 or
> 15 billion light-years, are there theories by which
> we would expect there to be galaxies quintillions
> of light years away, and so on?)
>
> Lee
>
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