Re: Size of the universe question ?

newshound <newshound@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What gets me going, is if the universe *is* a universe, by definition it
must be infinite, surely? So how can it even have a size?

The surface area of a sphere is finite, even though it is unbounded.

I should have said a *known* size.

Obviously we can only measure what we can see, but as is already shown,
by the missing mass, we can't see it all.

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Andy Hewitt
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