Ok, the universe. Infinite in size or what?

[blobrana]

Hum,
i do like soft centres...

But i think that our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character.
Check  out  the
'Picard topology' here.

And the minimun size of the universe is about 156 billion light years wide they figure...
See!

you there...! :-)

[BTW the age is about 14 Billion years, er, as if you didn`t know...]

[blobrana]

@PMC

Er, yea...
Space (or to give it a more technical name, 'The Universe') is big. Really Big, and there seemed to have been a `quick-slow-quick-quickening` rate of expansion according to the latest theories...



And because the space-time is expanding into a `void`...(er, for a better word)...then the expansion pace can be faster than light speed...it is thought that the initial expansion rate  of the universe was exponential ; and it grew to like 10⁵⁰ times the size of our observable universe in a second (er, or two)...

This  of COURSE still restricts the things in our space-time to be constrained by light speed (er, as observed   by the `fine constant` constant)

Well according to the The Guide

[blobrana]

Hum,
i think he's aware that
Speed = distance/time
 and  acceleration = ( final speed - initial speed ) / time

http://www.syptech.com/applications/eq1.gif

Which all becomes meaningless when the universe is expanding into a `region` that has no `time`.


but for something in our universe (space-time) things are ,er, differant...

[blobrana]

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