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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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apparently you can never fly to the edge of space, you just keep going
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 13:55, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
only instead of going off one side and appearing on another, you just never leave it
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Although it would have to be a big ping pong ball. Bigger than the fucking massive hamster that works The London Eye.
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Say you were a 2 dimensional being (basically up and down did not exist for you) and you lived on a 3 dimensional sphere. You could travel forever in the 2 dimensions you existed in and never reach an end, only back where you came from.
This does not make the sphere infinite, just finite in a direction you cannot perceive or travel in.
So use that analogy for yourself as a three dimensional being (as you are) and the universe as a 4 dimensional sphere. It's not infinite, but in a direction we can't/dont 'do'.
This may all be bollocks.
(, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 14:04, Reply)
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