2006-07-04 05:05:18 · 8 answers · asked by anubis m 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You cannot divide the universe into squares in the way you suggest. Any of the self professed experts on relativity could tell you this.
To cut spacetime into neat squares it would have to be Euclidian. But general relativity and its supporting experiments show that spacetime is not, in fact, Euclidian on the large scale.
You would have to fill spacetime with pieces of Euclidian like spaces that work locally and that are in effect glued together at the edges. This is called a manifold.
But the spacetime manifold that describes the universe is not static. It has waves and other structures in it that are solution to the Einstein field equations. So once again, your square inch model falls to bit.
Sorry, but spacetime just aint that simple.
2006-07-04 05:21:08 · answer #1 · answered by Epidavros 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the evidence indicating that the universe is expanding, then the number of 'cubic' inches is constantly increasing. If you use square inches, then you would have to divide the universe into an infinite number of parallel planes to get an approximation of the number of squares. Volume measurements would work better in place of planar measurements.
Either way, the number will increase.
2006-07-04 12:12:40 · answer #2 · answered by 63vette 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once we understood the "Doppler shift" we realized the universe is expanding.Since the universe is now in this state of expansion the amount of square inches will grow,just as the universe grows...tom science
2006-07-04 19:39:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will GROW (one way or another) - the universe is expanding.
So, you have a choice - either your squares remain the same size but increase in number OR the number remains the same but each square gets larger.
2006-07-04 12:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by Froggy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
physical mass will show an appropriate change in dimension if there is a change in size if put the time space in a box the correlative identity of motion can observed as past tense and motion can be statically described
2006-07-04 12:14:37 · answer #5 · answered by Book of Changes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would be cubic inches and it would grow, for the universe is expanding.
2006-07-04 16:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by iconoclast_ensues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how many hip babies are born in the future, Man.
2006-07-10 22:02:58 · answer #7 · answered by Tom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
stay the same.
2006-07-04 12:17:51 · answer #8 · answered by NEAL N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋