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Some Reflections on the New Cosmogony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Herbert Wildon Carr
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Nothing is more surprising to the ordinary reflective man than the concept of a finite universe, yet it is to such a concept that the latest development of mathematical science, so admirably expounded in Jeans's Astronomy and Cosmogony, requires us to adapt ourselves. A finite universe is one in which anything moving outwards in a straight line, and maintaining its direction, must after an interval return to its starting-point. This seems a self-contradiction. A straight line, we think, must go on for ever.

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Philosophy , Volume 4 , Issue 15 , July 1929 , pp. 346 - 355
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1929

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