Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> It's possible I got that wrong.  Indeed, it's possible I don't know anything
> at all about the subject that I think I do. :-)  Were this an actual
> scientific forum, I'd have shut up a long time ago.

Well, same with me - but that's the fun part about it: Nobody *expects* us to
know what we're talking about, so we can let our imagination run wild ;)

> > AIUI the cosmological horizon is just the distance we can see *now*. Everything
> > beyond will become visible to us over time. Theoretically speaking.
>
> Oh, the event horizon. No, I think it's caused by space itself expanding,
> due to the big bang sort of thing.  If it all collapses again, that's a
> different question.

But if it all collapses again, then we couldn't have such an event horizon,
right? After all, it would all "boil down" (literally ;)) to a single point
again, where all the stuff will be able to interact once more...

(Then again, currently scientists claim we'll all be ripped to pieces one day by
the ever-faster expanding space within us all... hmmm... "the space within us" -
sounds a bit hippie-ish ;)

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