From: "Geo" 

"Dave"  wrote in message
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> So, is the Universe as we know it any larger than the distance between
> the two most widely-spaced objects?  If someone were located at the
> galaxy that is farthest away from the locus of the big bang event, and
> started flying away from that locus, would the universe expand?

I don't know, maybe, or maybe they would just appear at the opposite end of
the universe, or maybe your question is like saying "so if someone
flew out of a black hole"...

You know, it may well be that from our POV we really are alone in the
universe, not that nobody else exists but that the distances are so great
that it would take longer than the life span of civilizations to ever
communicate.

It's like if there were 2 ant colonies on planet earth, on opposite sides
of the planet, would it really matter if they knew the other existed since
they could never visit or communicate with them?

Geo.

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