mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) (12/23/84)
In answering another question, Ethan Vishniac pointed out that in an
inflationary universe, distant parts of the universe are now seeing
one another for the second time because of slowing of the general
expansion. This seems odd to me, in that the further one looks, the
older one sees. Yet signals from the very edge were also observed a very
long time ago. Do we not get a doubling, like the image in a curved
mirror? If so, there presumably is a region of time that we see over
a range of distances, like the focus of that mirror.... If not, why not?
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Martin Taylor
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