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Old 24-January-2004, 04:48 AM
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Default Re: Universe Expansion

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Originally Posted by Ian Goddard
Actually only you've stipulated known edges. And you've switched your counter from saying an expanding finite space must have a "center of expansion" to the irrefutable "it must have a center" -- as if that counters something I said. I believe my last reply provides an actual definition for your initial counter about a center of expansion that differentiates such from no center of expansion.
Your counter merely has a circular expansion on a checkerboard of squares or on a sheet of Euclidean-square graph paper. In either of those cases, the expansion has a center.

You stipulated the edges by referring to a “checkerboard”. I don’t know if the universe has edges or not.
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