Hagar wrote:
"Liam" wrote in message
ps.com...
Just found this CNN article where measured cosmic radioactivity seems
to indicate the universe is pill-shaped:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/1...ill/index.html

Now, I've just come to grips with the concept of the universe being
infinite and expanding out of a Big...Expanding like "raisin bread" or
an infinitely thick skin of a balloon.

Now this pill-shaped thing? I can't reconcile this in my mind.

Could someone help me understand how both of these can be true, or
whether one theory undermines the other?

Thanks!
Liam


What if the early Universe had an axial spin to it and with that spin, it
had developed a slight equatorial bulge, pretty much like Earth has. Now if
that spin were to slow down over time, could it create the opposite of a,
equatorial bulge, something like an equatorial waist, which would give it a
pill-shaped, somewhat oblong appearance, or would it still remain a sphere
??



Long ago, I wrote a 4-D cad system. I could pretty much show you a
large number of shapes; diamond-like, box-like, square like, tube-like -
and they all were the same thing, a projection of a 4D object onto 3
dimensions, and then onto a 2D screen.

It's meaningless to talk about a 'shape' when there is no frame of
reference to judge that shape by. I personally hope we're in a Marilyn
Monroe universe, complete with red velvet backdrop. Makes about as much
sense as a pill.....