funnel-shaped Universe?

Thu Apr 15, 2004 2:02 pm by freighter fighter

Could the Universe be shaped like a medieval horn? It may sound like a surrealist's dream, but according to Frank Steiner at the University of Ulm in Germany, recent observations hint that the cosmos is stretched out into a long funnel, with a narrow tube at one end flaring out into a bell. It would also mean that space is finite.

Big Bang glow hints at funnel-shaped Universe

If they are, then our Universe is curved like a Pringle, shaped like a horn, and named after a Star Trek character. You could not make it up.

gotta love this bit

Edited by - freighter fighter on 4/15/2004 3:06:10 PM

Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:49 pm by Leonhart

lol...I do hope they make up their mind allready

some say its a plane, some like a sphere and now a funnel...whats next a square?

Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:32 pm by AELK

That's not quite right. After the flared bell shape, it gets narrow again.

But, otherwise, it's the right idea. Very similar to my own theory.

Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:54 pm by Eh_Steve

Tell us more about your theory AELK.

Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:06 pm by AELK

In simplest terms my theory is that the flared end isn't the end but the middle and then it tapers down again.

Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:43 pm by H.Q. Victor

How can scientist even guess at the galaxys shape much less the universe. Draw a circle of 6 inchs. put a dot 1/4 of an inch from one edge. Now look at it remembering stars, like our sun are bigger than the earth. So how in the world would they ever know what the other side of the galaxy looks like.

*shakes head*

Michael
"Hezekiah"

Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:53 pm by AELK

*ahem*

Well, you see, there is the residual light from the Big Bang that one can trace throughout our universe.

*ahem* *ahem* *ahem* Sorry. Something's catching in my throat.

But that light, a kind of afterglow, if you will, can be traced. The team in Germany haven't finished, I believe. They have reached a point, the flared portion, but haven't gone beyond it, as yet.

In MY theory,

*ahem*

That flared bit will continue on for a while but then it will taper back down rather like the way in which it originated.

-Anne

Edited by - AELK on 4/15/2004 6:54:27 PM

Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:56 pm by Neo_Kuja

Possibly .........
Are you a scientist , by the way ?

Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:31 pm by AELK

I'm reading paleontology at uni atm.

Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:54 pm by Esquilax

Well, light is bent by gravity anyway; maybe they are just confused

. Still, they still haven't conclusively proven "dark matter" (or "dark energy" ) exists either

.

Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:09 am by AELK

Yes. Of course it is all contingent on proofs. I feel fairly confident in my approach. In my readings at uni, I've seen similarities to this view. It is
rather uncanny but I think there are certain things that redound as a sort of
core or fundamental essence.

Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:34 am by Indy11

Monty Python anyone?

Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:45 am by Nickless V2

In Holland you get fries in a bag shaped rougly the same way. Could there be a connection?

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Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:36 am by ~Corsair#01~

I'd always thought space to be finite. If it has a centre, then it has an edge. If it began at a certain point in time (and thus has been expanding ever since), then it must begin (and, thus, also END at) a certain point in space.

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Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:45 am by Gowserpaul

I'm just plain confused

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