From: Bradley Graham Weslake (bgw03@uow.edu.au)
Date: Fri Nov 28 1997 - 01:20:14 MST
> Let's say the universe is closed. Is there any way we can make it open? I was
> thinking about reconfiguring the mass in it. (As you already know, I tend
> to side
> with the open universe side.)
>
> Daniel Ust
>
>
I dare say it would be a proposition for the topologists. The best way to
conceptualise an open universe in three dimensional space is by imagining
a "saddle". Changing from a closed universe to an open would be a similar
problem to morphing (for want of a better term) a sphere into a saddle.
Changing from an open to a closed universe is, of course, a nice thought
experiment but the most practically unlikely an engineering feat as has ever
been dreamed up!
-- transient@mindless.com
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