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From: maxg@tekig.UUCP (Max Guernsey)
Newsgroups: net.astro.expert
Subject: The Universe
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Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 03:20:38 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 03:20:38 1985
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The article in yesterdays Oregonian (from the Chicago Tribune News Service)
about Stephen Hawkings talks in Chicago, left me with several questions.

	1)    "One of the revolutionary consequences of the
		inflationary universe model is that there may be
		more than one universe; there may be an infinite
		number of universes."

I take it that the inflationary universe is the balloon example that was
given here within the last couple of months.  But why and how can there
be more than one universe?

	2)	 "Some funny things will happen when the universe
		begins to collapse.  The direction of time will be
		reversed and the past will become the future..."

		  "The reason, again, is the second law of
		thermodynamics..."

		  "An observer on a space ship in the recollapsing
		would see things going in reverse, from disorder to
		order..."

Somehow it seems that even if/when the universe begins to collapse, we
will still be going "forward" in time, regardless of whether things are
going from order to disorder or disorder to order.??


Max Guernsey
maxg@tekig4