On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:25:11PM -0700, hal@rain.org wrote:
> But isn't the conventional model of the universe, if we assume that it
> is spatially open and unbounded, in exactly this form?
The conventional model does have a prefered position, namely the Big Bang.
> Would you suggest that, on philosophical grounds, we have evidence that
> the universe cannot be infinite (without preferred positions)?
Yes.