From: hibbert@netcom.com
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 12:28:35 MDT
Damien Broderick cited news reports to say
> Just taking it at face value, the suggestion is that it looks as if
> the universe will expand forever and the mass density will get
> lower and lower, so eventually it will reach to nearly zero
Just a quibble. I don't know what the consensus is on the underlying
physics, but if the quote above is an accurate description "it looks as if
the universe will expand forever and the mass density will get lower and
lower", then the conclusion "eventually it will reach to nearly zero"
doesn't follow. Remember asymptotes. The density can keep getting lower
forever, without ever getting close to zero.
Chris
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