The incredible (non-)shrinking holes

[Brady Moffatt]

I think we have just achieved a new level of cosmic off-topicness. I love
this list!!

Cheers,
Brady

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Huw Powell

>>Having just explained nuclear fusion to my
>>seven-year-old by using mini chocolate chips ...
>
> Not a good idea.  I explained Olber's Paradox to my son when he was seven:
>
> http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/study/sci/cosmo/internal/olbers.htm
>
> A few weeks later, his poor schoolmistress tried to explain to the class
why the sky was dark
> at night - but she had one little voice saying: "Please Miss, it shouldn't
be!"

"At least one of the assumptions that the universe is static, uniform
and infinite in extent must be wrong."

I believe the solutionis that the universe is not static.  Since objects
far away from us are receding at incredible speeds, their light is
hugely red-shifted.

--
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/