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Wroisu t1_j2pureb wrote

Reply to comment by TheMace808 in How do galaxies move? by modsarebrainstems

the argument I’d give in return is that it only appears locally flat (local as in the entire observable universe) because the total thing is much larger than 93 billion light years across. Like if your entire observable universe was Kansas, but you didn’t know Kansas was part of a globe.

The margin of error for positive curvature is 0.4% so… within the limits of things that are known and possible.

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TheMace808 t1_j2puvor wrote

Yeah that’s why I said as far as we know we can think up and theorize many a thing but the evidence we have suggests it’s flat

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koebelin t1_j2py05v wrote

There’s probably an infinite number of areas of space like what we call “the universe” for trillions of light years in every direction, some expanding, some colliding, some contracting. This is one idea some people have.

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