Salutatio Keith!
07-Mar-98, Keith Knapp wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: "Existence Exists"
 MB>> Therefore, the Universe is infinite because an infinity exists
 MB>> within its scope.
 KK> RM>And THAT, my dear friend, is what I have been saying long ago
 KK> when I RM>first brought up the thread the first time more then a
 KK> year ago.  That RM>the BB model is illogical.  If the universe is
 KK> finite then there should RM>*:NO:* infinities at all within the
 KK> universe; no mathematical infinities, RM>no quantum mechanical
 KK> infinities, no infinitely divisible properties RM>of matter, and
 KK> no infinitely circular religious arguments ;) (MAN, I'd RM>love to
 KK> live in a universe like that ).
 KK> Pardon me for playing village idiot, Richard, but I don't see the
 KK> conflict here.  If you model the 4-D universe as the surface of a
 KK> balloon, you can say that the surface is finite in some ways but
 KK> infinite if you consider the surface of the balloon itself.  I
 KK> don't see how a universe cannot be finite but also have tons of
 KK> infinities.
We are tossing this one about in the local THEORIES_134 echo and we have
JUST come to that conclusion. :D  Funny stuff.
 Dicere...
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Richard Meic
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