- Feb 10, 2002
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I found this intriguing........ I don't know squat about it, but, I am like that about many things.
snippets......
"Scientists have kicked around many possibilities for the shape of the cosmos and whether or not it has a boundary. Now one group says the big house is set up something like the surface of a soccer ball, with cosmic patches stitched together to form a decidedly finite universe. "
"If the theory is right ? and the researchers say more work is needed to bear it out ? then light should experience the same travel patterns as you did while walking around the paper cylinder. That would mean astronomers should be able to find multiple images of a single object in space. Weeks thinks of it this way: On the paper cylinder, a person could look east and west and, in both directions, see light coming from a single object that?s on the far side of the cylinder.
The concept has implications for space travel, or at least for pondering its potential extremes.
?Hypothetically speaking, if you head off into space you can travel in a straight line and come back to the starting point,? Weeks said. ?But it would take a long time.?
"?The universe is finite,? he said, ?but there?s no boundary to it,? implying that there is no beyond, or that if there is, then its nature is left to your imagination and is outside the closed system that astronomers can ever hope to see."
snippets......
"Scientists have kicked around many possibilities for the shape of the cosmos and whether or not it has a boundary. Now one group says the big house is set up something like the surface of a soccer ball, with cosmic patches stitched together to form a decidedly finite universe. "
"If the theory is right ? and the researchers say more work is needed to bear it out ? then light should experience the same travel patterns as you did while walking around the paper cylinder. That would mean astronomers should be able to find multiple images of a single object in space. Weeks thinks of it this way: On the paper cylinder, a person could look east and west and, in both directions, see light coming from a single object that?s on the far side of the cylinder.
The concept has implications for space travel, or at least for pondering its potential extremes.
?Hypothetically speaking, if you head off into space you can travel in a straight line and come back to the starting point,? Weeks said. ?But it would take a long time.?
"?The universe is finite,? he said, ?but there?s no boundary to it,? implying that there is no beyond, or that if there is, then its nature is left to your imagination and is outside the closed system that astronomers can ever hope to see."
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