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- From: maury@softarc.com (Maury Markowitz)
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- Subject: Re: How UFOS travel thru space ?
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:57:45 +0000
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- In article <31C9D6FB.70DF@aber.ac.uk>, Marc Forrester <mef4@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- > 1/ The universe has existed forever, giving the light from
- > infinitely far stars enough time to get here, and..
- >
- > 2/ Hubble expansion is not linear. If Hubble expansion is
- > linear, then if you go far enough, you'll find everything
- > moving away from us at rates much greater than C.
- > Which would mean nearly all of the universe was in fact
- > entirely outside our light-sphere, and invisible to us.
-
- Neither of these are relevant to the thread at hand though. Regardless
- of the reason, the answer is the same - the energy available to us is not
- infinite and will only be so in infinite time.
-
- > Now personally, I think the universe does contain infinite
- > energy in infinite space, because it just seems like the
- > least hypothesis to me.
-
- That's not the point, the issue is how much of that is available to us.
- That amount is the size of the _visible universe_, ie, 15 billion LY
- work. It doesn't make a difference how much of the universe lies outside
- that sphere, it is not causually connected to us and for all intents and
- purposes does not exist
-
- > OTOH, surely it would take us an
- > infinite amount of time to gather it all up, and in using
- > it we would erase the whole universe?
-
- A fair line for pondering I suppose.
-
- > Seems like a hell of a way to go just to
- > get a spaceship to hit lightspeed.. :>
-
- And why bother at all? At .99 gamma the trip won't take that long anyway.
-
- Maury
-