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namasté

While listening to the radio ( called Science Friday on NPR radio in the USA), the scientist of astrophysics suggested the notion that the universe is flat.

While I listened I was some what aghast that the interviewer did not ponder, poke and query this idea further , his response was 'oh, ah-ha'.

Again I think how can this be? I recall reading some that hundreds of years ago the notion that the earth was also flat. Now if I were interviewing this scientist ( and by-the-by I have heard this idea before) I would ask or say the following.
  • When you say flat, do you mean only and X-axis and Y-axis exists and no z-axis ( no depth) ?
  • If its flat how flat is it? It is measured in light years flat? Define your envelope of flat please.
  • My experience ( and also Hubble's, the telescope) shows me photo's from different regions of the sky and this is in multiple 3 dimensional space... where is the flat there?

Once again I ponder additional observations that do not pass my common sense test.


praām