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- From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: infinite universe
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.163056.22498@novell.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 16:30:56 GMT
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- In article <19409@mindlink.bc.ca> Terry_Martin@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Martin) writes:
- >Questions by a non-scientist;
- >
- >a) Can matter and space occupy the same volume simultaneously?
- >b) We define the universe in terms of General Relativity and Quantuum
- >Mechanics. I understand that these generalized terms describe the observable
- >universe on cosmological and sub-atomic levels reasonably well, but are
- >incompatible when combined in that they result in a singularity.
- >
- >This implies to me that we can have a universe in which space-time can exist
- >in the absence of matter, but not vise versa; matter can not exist in the
- >absence of space-time without arriving at the dreaded singularity.
- >
- >If this is true, and we can have a universe which includes space-time but not
- >matter, which by definition would also exclude gravity and quantuum
- >mechanical effects, in what terms would the universe be described? (I assume
- >it would contain energy).
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- If it contains energy, it probably contains matter.
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- dks.
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