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I'm curious about the concept of discrete quanta of spacetime ruling out an infinite universe. Anyplace you can point me to read up on that? My brain seems to be incapable of making that logical connection. I have to agree with Qev on this one, I am only an astronomer and we are notoriously bad at ...

While I disagree with Dr. Skeptics logic the essential point is true, an infinite Universe is not plausible given current understanding. It really doesnt matter anyway, as we are always limited to observing regions of the Universe within the sphere that light has had time to travel across to reach u...

Very interesting on the face of it. Until you dig just a little bit deeper. First of all the "paper" you reference has never been peer reviewed, in fact it is also written by people in the paid service of a Creationist Science organisation hardly the most independent of thinkers. Also the ...

Hi All I came across the following post by Harry, the pedant in me wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't note a few problems with these assertions. A small amount of background on myself, I am an astronomer (or try to be), I'm not a to the death defender of any particular theory (im not o...