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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: open-closed, bounded-unbounded, finite-infinite
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 19:05:30 EST
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> > I would like to hear a discussion of the implications of a closed and/or
> > bounded (not the same thing) universe on such issues.  I think there is
> > something very interesting to be discovered about this..

I apparently need to clarify:  I am interested in quantization and
conjugate-transform pairs in a closed and/or bounded manifold.  To
give a simple example, only certain standing waves are possible on
the surface of a spherical membrane.

I do not care to discuss whether "closed" means "contains all its
limit points" or "countains its boundary" or whatever.  That is
not the thing that interests me about this topic.