Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@brl-vld From: gwyn%brl-vld@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: An interisting bit of trivia heard on "Cosmos" Message-ID: <1967@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 11:29:53 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1967 Posted: Thu Jun 9 11:29:53 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 06:34:26 EDT Lines: 11 From: Doug Gwyn VLD/VMBGeneral Relativity itself does not state what global cosmology exists, but in any case it would be unlikely that 56 years of time in any reference system would suffice to reach an "end of the universe". Actually, the simplest cosmology consistent with the natural generalization of relativity theory is a steady-state, isotropic universe. In such a universe, you will find things pretty much the same wherever and whenever you arrive.