IN the beginning.

"K.chattenton" wrote in message
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HI Steven all,
"steven" wrote in message ...
As far as I can make out this was the universe. It was only this size,
nothing existed outside this, as there was no outside. Hope this helps
but maybe not.

Steven

Thanks for your reply.

I know what you are saying, but I still find this all totally amazing (
not
to mention impossible..?? ).

Cheers all Ken UK.


Hi Ken,

It is certainly amazing but all the evidence points to the universe (which
includes space itself) being very small and very hot in the past (Cosmic
microwave background, abundance of the simple elements) the tricky bit comes
when the other difficult question - "where did the universe come from?" is
asked. Some theories propose that our universe was created by events in
another structure "outside" the universe. However, since this structure is
not part of our universe, testing the validity of these theories is going to
be somewhat of a problem.

Robin