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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.astro.expert
Subject: Re: cosmology (yea!)
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 12:18:34 EDT
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> I doubt that even the black hole advocates can claim that the
> universe (or our part of it, at any rate) is inside the critical
> radius of a humongous black hole.  But who knows?  If they want
> to believe it enough I am sure they'll work up a theory to make
> it so.

I seem to recall that in the standard cosmology the closed Friedmann universe is
essentially equivalent to the whole universe being a big black hole.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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