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Old 13-September-2005, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by antoniseb
Would the Steady State Universe collapse? It it were infinite in size, no one part would have a prefered direction to collapse to. Otherwise, yes it would collapse.
A universe consisting of the 3-D surface of a hypersphere could exist without collapsing and would not need to be infinite. I'm not arguing for it, just showing other models could exist.