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The Universe: Smaller Than We Thought?

Astronomy Wednesday, October 8, 2003 . This is a SciScoop post by apsmith

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An infinite universe presents us with a number of perplexing problems – a recent Scientific American discussion covered many of them – effectively an infinite universe is equivalent to having many parallel universes, and having infinetely many copies of yourself out there doing slightly different things. But, on the other hand, a finite universe seems rather confining. Which makes the most sense? At least 60 billion light years is rather generous!

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