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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Heroic Game Launcher... BRAVO!
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:19:44 -0400
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RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-06-29, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>> RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On 2024-06-28, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>> RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2024-06-27, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:33:43 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Then the "Big Bang" didn't create the universe? (It's hard to keep track
>>>>>>>> of the latest dogma in these cultish religions.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>:-D  Physics = cultish religion. How fscking ridiculous!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, it's hard to tell which direction Francis will head in next.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess it's a lot easier to believe that God had a Big Bang than
>>>>>> that an eternal universe eventually became a singularity and then
>>>>>> exploded to start the next cycle of universe generation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try visualizing eternity.
>>>>
>>>> I just did!
>>>
>>> And what did you see?
>>
>> An endless sequence of expanding strings.  ;->
>>
>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Three_Minutes
>>
>>     Early in the book, Weinberg explores the origins and implications of the
>>     Hubble constant, that the red shift of galaxies is proportional to their
>>     distance, and how this is evidence for the expansion of the Universe. He
>>     introduces the Cosmological Principle, that the universe is isotropic and
>>     homogeneous. He then tells the story behind the discovery of the cosmic
>>     microwave background by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965.[3] After
>>     giving the reader a basis of understanding of astrophysics and particle
>>     physics, in chapter 5, Weinberg lays out the makeup of the Universe after
>>     its origin in a series of frozen frames. Weinberg shows how the Big Bang
>>     can account for the relative abundance of Hydrogen and Helium in the
>>     universe. 
>
> So, in other words, you're visualizing short, expanding strings and 
> "assuming" they go on forever. You're not actually "seeing" eternity, you're 
> limiting it to the breadth, width and length of finite "strings." Humans are 
> limited in time and space so we can't "see" (visualize) eternity or 
> infinity, we have to believe in it by faith. 

You don't know about string theory?

We don't need to visualize eternity/inifinity to determine its existence.

Granted, a human cannot imagine, say, an aleph-null of numbers. But it can
be defined by the rules it follows.

> But in response to Weinberg, if the universe (or "Universe" as Weinberg 
> capitalizes it?) is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?

Nothing. It simply means that the diameter, as measured, is expanding.

-- 
You fill a much-needed gap.