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• A comment on Conversation: If the universe is expanding - what is it expanding into?

  Jul 31 2012: I shudder to consider the possibility of going in THAT direction. I have it on reliable authority that the current version of hell entails forced listening to Scottish bagpipers for eternity.

• A comment on Conversation: If the universe is expanding - what is it expanding into?

  Jul 30 2012: What a deluge of theories and suppositions! The more we think about it, the
  confuseder it gets. I guess we'll have to wait until we finally go to that
  22-dimensional heaven.

• A reply on Conversation: If the universe is expanding - what is it expanding into?

  Jul 27 2012: Thanks Paul. I'm aware of these, but all of them have questions, no sensible answers.

• A comment on Conversation: If the universe is expanding - what is it expanding into?

  Jul 26 2012: Want another quandary? What existed before the BIG BANG? Perhaps there is an oscillating cosmos - one which had collapsed down into the single point of the BIG BANG's origin. And this conjures up the picture of a continually oscillating cosmos.
  One BIG BANG after another. But, if that is the case, when did all these oscillations start?
  Enough to give a man a headache!
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  A comment on Conversation: What is your favourite quote and why?

  Mar 13 2012: I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.