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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Roughly it means:

"Saying whatever sounds good in order to make the story work"

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Originally posted by zozo_yoyo_xoxo
Damn, I'd just logged on and was going to translate it. It's pig latin really.

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
not really

PigLatin and imperfect Latin are very different things.

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
it was still clever (and an accurate analysis of comic cosmology)

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Originally posted by Endless Mike
According to modern scientific theories, the physical universe has no edge or barrier, it loops back in on itself, so if you go far enough, you'll end up back where you started from.

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Originally posted by Endless Mike
By modeling the curvature of space with deep space instruments and such....

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Originally posted by zozo_yoyo_xoxo
Yes it's to do with how the Galaxies are moving apart they appear on a curve or bubble which itself is expanding. It's still only a theory.

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Originally posted by Galan007
That's the theory huh?


It's a known fact that the Universe is expanding exponentially, so if this theory is correct, eventually the Universe would expand to such a degree that it would collide with itself where it first started.

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The problem with that analysis is that nothing says the universe had to start anywhere.

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Originally posted by Galan007
Well to put it in another way, if this theory is accurate, the Universe would collide with itself from the point where it initially started expanding.

And we do know the Universe began expanding somewhere.

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Actually we don't know that

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
And even if we did is still wouldn't bump into itself.

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Originally posted by Galan007
If something expands, it started expanding from somewhere.

The Universe used to be much smaller, now it is much bigger..... It started from somewhere.

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Originally posted by Galan007
If this theory is to be believed, I don't see why it wouldn't.

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Originally posted by Endless Mike
The universe didn't begin expanding somewhere, it began expanding everywhere.

It's just at the Big Bang, "everywhere" was confined to a very small space, and then it expanded. There was no one place where it started.

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
No quite.

If you take a balloon and suck all the air out of it and then then inflate it again there is not point that it part of the balloon where the expansion began.

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Mainly since it has a limitless quantum vaccum into which it can expand. The only thing that would cause trouble would be if it fell back in on itself (due to the mass inside) or froze (due to there being too much space)

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Originally posted by Galan007
What it sounds like this theory is saying, it that if something travels in one or any direction, that it will eventually end up where it first started.

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Originally posted by Galan007
I don't see how this would be any different for an expanding Universe.


(I do think that theory is BS though)...

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Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Only if you're a sperate object traveling on the balloon's surface.

Every point in space is moving away from every other point in space not toward it

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Originally posted by Endless Mike
There is no nipple, that's just an analogy.

Think of it as an expanding sphere (even though it's higher dimensional than that)

What is expanding is spacetime itself, all of it at once. Every galactic cluster is moving slowly away from every other one.

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Originally posted by Galan007
Again, this theory makes it seem as though the Universe itself is almost a sperical shape, so if something travels in one direction for long enough, it would eventually come back to it's starting point.

I have no clue as to the specifics of this theory, that's just my general impression.