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To: muawiyah
We know how far we can see, but that's not the same as the boundary of all the inflationary space there could be.

Correct. Check out Linde's article (referenced in post #1). There he mentions that some inflation theories suggest that the radius of our cosmic bubble could be as large as 101,000,000,000,000 centimeters—that's a 1 followed by a trillion zeros. By contrast, the part of our universe that we can currently see has a radius which is only about 1026 centimeters, exceedingly miniscule by comparison.

20 posted on 04/02/2006 8:20:06 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored

"By contrast, the part of our universe that we can currently see has a radius which is only about 10^26 centimeters, exceedingly miniscule by comparison."

That would be precisely one yottameter. I kid you not.

I thought I'd never actually get a chance to use that word.


35 posted on 04/02/2006 8:48:35 PM PDT by RussP
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