tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672880129970799148.post686087545055498091..comments2023-08-22T07:01:08.590-07:00Comments on Agent Intellect: Size Doesn't Matter (thank God), part 1Jim S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15538540873375357030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672880129970799148.post-18818020136275167222011-09-20T08:54:14.954-07:002011-09-20T08:54:14.954-07:00I've never heard that. Interesting.I've never heard that. Interesting.Jim S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15538540873375357030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672880129970799148.post-63218027055452446912011-09-19T16:33:50.033-07:002011-09-19T16:33:50.033-07:00Just a minor quibble, two years too late but still...Just a minor quibble, two years too late but still Big Bang cosmology does not show that the universe is spatially finite. The jury will probably be permanently out on that one. Short story: The best measurements of the cosmic background radiation shows us that spacetime is flat on the largest scales. If spacetime is finite (closed) then it must be so large that from our vantage point it appears flat even though it has a positive curvature.<br /><br />That doesn't change that our universe must from a state of (near) infinite density and temperature some finite amount of time in the past.Leonhardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13815705241524089233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672880129970799148.post-59912353207771873492009-04-01T14:26:00.000-07:002009-04-01T14:26:00.000-07:00You could add that Frederick Turner makes an inter...You could add that Frederick Turner makes an interesting point: Earth may not be the biggest planet and all, but <I>more happens here</I> than anyplace we know (from <I>The Culture of Hope</I>, page somethin'-or-other). Or is something of this already in part 2?jacob longshorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00889229474841715676noreply@blogger.com