08-19-2010, 10:51 PM
(08-18-2010, 12:13 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: Per Dewey Larson, a fundamental tenet of RST is that the universe is Euclidean. Now a truly Euclidean (or flat) Universe would never coalesce due to its own gravity (this requires a closed universe based upon an elliptical geometry).
Two questions about this. What do you mean when you say that a Euclidean universe is flat? And why does coalescing due to its own gravity require elliptical geometry? Ra said that Dewey Larson didn't understand gravity. I wonder if that might be relevant here.
(08-18-2010, 12:13 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: It is interesting to note, that the amount of matter/energy known is amazingly close to the amount necessary to make a flat universe. After that the simple addition or subtraction of a single atom is all that is needed to make it elliptical or hyperbolic.
Whoah! How does that work, exactly? Can you elaborate on this at all?
(08-18-2010, 12:13 PM)3D Sunset Wrote: It is also possible that this may be resolved by whatever theory eventually explains why inflation (i.e., movement faster than the speed of light) happened in the very early universe, but I can't say.
For what it's worth, Dewey Larson himself did not accept the Big Bang theory, and he scoffed at many of what he considered "imaginative" attempts by theorists to get themselves out of sticky situations that their fundamental misunderstanding of time, space, and motion had gotten them into. I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that inflation might be one of those imaginative attempts.