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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
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- Subject: Re: Modelling the expanding universe
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:35:44 GMT
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- mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
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- >Milne's cosmology obeyed a kind of cosmological principle without
- >incorporating general relativity (at least not obviously). The galaxies
- >were supposed to be literally flying out through Minkowski space from a
- >Big Bang that happened at one point. They therefore formed an
- >expanding sphere which, seen from outside, appeared to have a center
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Oops. Don't take that too literally-- since the edge moved at the
- speed of light, you of course couldn't see the thing from outside;
- it'd be on top of you by the time you did.
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- Matt McIrvin
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