From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)

Jim Choate writes:

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If you accept the universe as unbounded then you have to throw out the Big Bang and much of conventional physics, including large parts of what you are trying to prove.

I think you may be confusing the notion of "unbounded" with the notion of "finite". The Big Bang is perfectly consistant with the notion of a finite but unbounded universe.

The big bang is also perfectly consistent with an infinite and unbounded universe. This is part of the well-known debate over whether the universe is "open" or "closed". An open universe is infinite in extent. However, at any given time only a finite portion of the universe is avail- able, so the infinity is not really accessible. Hal