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Subject: Re: big bang vs. speed of light
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 20:41:29 EDT
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Pat Clancy stated in a recent article in net.physics (tektroni.1428)
that "the 'event horizon' at any [point in time] should include all
other matter originating in the big bang."  (his reasoning can be seen
in his article).

I quite agree.  In fact, there are many scientist who hypothesis that if the
mass of the universe is sightly greater than the current estimations, we are
living in a closed universe.  (i.e. the mass of the universe will slow the
acceleration of all matter until it halts and then colapses back into the
point in "space" where it all began).

A comment on my use of "space" above.  The term space is used loosly to
describe the spacial cordinates outside the "event horizon" described above.

A Recent article in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC talked briefly on the posiblity of
hidden mass in Black Holes, black patches in space, and general presence of
matter, hydrogen, between planets, stars, galaxies, etc.

If the above does turn out to be true then we do know what it is like to
be inside a black hole.  (Our black hole, the universe, being several
billion light years across, at least in our measurements ....).