Comments on: Gravity Sucks & Dark Energy Blows https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/24/gravity-sucks-dark-energy-blows/ Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:30:43 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/24/gravity-sucks-dark-energy-blows/#comment-1062 ER Wed, 25 May 2011 01:52:57 +0000 http://184.73.169.189/?p=1116#comment-1062 Not necessarily. The old Steady State theory required the Universe to be infinitely large as well as infinitely old. The Big Bang universe began a finite number of years ago, but it is not clear whether it is infinitely large or not. In my opinion, the jury is still out on the basic geography of the universe. All this dark matter and dark energy stuff is way beyond my understanding. Not necessarily. The old Steady State theory required the Universe to be infinitely large as well as infinitely old. The Big Bang universe began a finite number of years ago, but it is not clear whether it is infinitely large or not.

In my opinion, the jury is still out on the basic geography of the universe. All this dark matter and dark energy stuff is way beyond my understanding.

]]> By: Eri https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/24/gravity-sucks-dark-energy-blows/#comment-1057 Eri Tue, 24 May 2011 21:42:13 +0000 http://184.73.169.189/?p=1116#comment-1057 So we no longer have infinity? It died? Jeez and nobody told me. :-) So we no longer have infinity? It died? Jeez and nobody told me. :-)

]]> By: ER https://www.habitablezone.com/2011/05/24/gravity-sucks-dark-energy-blows/#comment-1056 ER Tue, 24 May 2011 18:20:24 +0000 http://184.73.169.189/?p=1116#comment-1056 When I started off as an astronomy undergrad in 1964, it still was not clear whether there was a big bang, or if the now-discredited "steady-state" theory was where the smart money should be. I bet on the latter, the idea of the Perfect Cosmological Principle, that at any point in time or space the infinitely old and infinitely large universe would always look roughly the same from any point or time within or during it. The data showed I was wrong. Now we know the Universe is finite, in space or time, and that it is evolving, with an unknowable singularity at one end of the continuum, and a featureless and fully entropic heat death at the other. So much for Occam's Razor. When I started off as an astronomy undergrad in 1964, it still was not clear whether there was a big bang, or if the now-discredited “steady-state” theory was where the smart money should be. I bet on the latter, the idea of the Perfect Cosmological Principle, that at any point in time or space the infinitely old and infinitely large universe would always look roughly the same from any point or time within or during it.

The data showed I was wrong. Now we know the Universe is finite, in space or time, and that it is evolving, with an unknowable singularity at one end of the continuum, and a featureless and fully entropic heat death at the other.

So much for Occam’s Razor.

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