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Old 28-April-2008, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tommac View Post
Again, how can one proove what you are saying ( #1 ) vs what I am saying (#2)
To be honest, I don't have the foggiest notion what you are saying. Your #2 seems to require someone to stand outside the universe with an extra-universal metre-stick, which isn't a great starting point for reasoned discussion.

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... in fact what I am saying seems also to be similar to the effects we see near a gravitational well. If you take the compression of space ( kind ofthe opposite to what you are saying ) that would mean that the space fairy comes and takes back the space
"Compression" is your word for what happens under gravity, and it's misleading. Others (Richard, I believe) have pointed out that there is a distortion of the spacetime coordinate system under gravity, which is mathematically well described and experimentally well tested.

Grant Hutchison