From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 11:34:28 MDT
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:48:17AM -0400, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> If the universe is already infinite, how could it be expanding? If it is
> expanding, how could it be called a 'steady state'?
You can have an expanding steady state. Just imagine an infinite plane
which is growing so that two points separated by one unit of length at time
t will be separated by two units of length at time t+1, for example:
x(t)=x(0)*2^t y(t)=y(0)*2^t
This is a simple toy universe with infinite past, future and spatial
extent.
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