Its a classic post your desktop thread :)

by **Courtney White** » May 3, 2004 @ 8:43pm

I'd only get a Mac so i could play Number Munchers..

Woooh!! PRIMES!

WATCH OUT! *MUNCH*

... Damn

by **David Horn** » May 3, 2004 @ 9:25pm

I imagine the universe as a giant sphere. If you're an ant on a beach ball, the world looks flat, yet if you walk for long enough, you end up where you started. This assumes everything lives on the outside, or skin, of course.

by **James S** » May 3, 2004 @ 10:08pm

But if space itself curves then the Universe would appear to be infinite in size even though it were not. And there's no way to determine if this phenomenon occurs unless we observe it from a region where space is not curved ... like 'outside' of the Universe. But I don't see why there has to be an outside of the Universe. If all dimensions curved inwar inside the Universe then there would be no dimensions outside of the Universe. And this curvature would also explain Doppler shifts, red and blue shifts in objects, because the light would have to follow this curved spaced to get to us. The more distant the object the more curved space the light would have to travel through, which could possibly increase the wave length of light.

by **Blade Runner** » May 3, 2004 @ 10:11pm

We'll know this in maybe 100years.
Technology is going so fast, 386 (32mhz) to 3.4ghz in 10years. Wow.

by **James S** » May 3, 2004 @ 10:41pm

by **Chad** » May 3, 2004 @ 10:59pm

Theoretical physics has gotta be the most interesting field ever.... I love these kinds of conversations.

by **sp0om** » May 3, 2004 @ 11:37pm

Its a classic post your desktop thread :)

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