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jhgreve@epx.cis.umn.edu () writes:

>>Is this true?  I thought physicists weren't decided yet if there's
>>enough mass to make a closed/periodic universe ?

>why does open/closed figure into nature of time?
>I submit that it doesn't make any difference, since even if
>everything big-crunched and started up a new universe,
>the "current prototype" would still have been there (note 
>the use of past tense).

I don't really know the original motivation but I assumed that
there was some speculation that if the universe started to 
collapse then maybe time would start running backwards (what
ever it could mean.)


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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
