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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by soligern on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:28PM (#36717010)
It’s all irrelevant until we can answer what does the universe exist in, which we never will.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by VincentEvans on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:32PM (#36717042)
I propose the universe exists in itself. That the interstellar space - is the same as subatomic space. Its both at the same time, like a möbius strip. Space between stars is space between atoms, etc.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by rewgs on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:42AM (#36720249)
This is my favorite hypothesis, even though/especially because it makes your mind spin. I could be wrong but I think Roger Penrose has some thoughts along these lines. I may be butchering this and/or injecting my own (admittedly ignorant) pontification into it, but:

The universe will keep expanding until entropy reaches a maximum -- the "Big Freeze." Once maximum entropy is reached -- wherein all atoms in the universe are totally dispersed, everything is the same distance from everything else, and the universe is a totally uniform field -- one could say that is very orderly indeed, i.e. the theoretical minimum entropy.

I imagine that all of the matter in the universe being perfectly dispersed would quite neatly "fill" the universe. So who's to say such a situation isn't infinitely dense?

Much like the moment just before the Big Bang.

Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by uwagar on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:31PM (#36717033)
could be 'on' too. like on a gigantic tortoise.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by n_sweep on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:46PM (#36717147)
it's tortoises all the way down
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by uwagar on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:15PM (#36718654)
hey tortoise. u seem above me ;)
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by tim333 on Friday July 14, 2023 @03:35AM (#36720598)
In maths.