Static universe
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title:
Static universe
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In cosmology, a static universe is a cosmological model in which the universe is both spatially and temporally infinite, and space is neither expanding nor contracting. Such a universe does not have so-called spatial curvature; that is to say that it is 'flat' or Euclidean. A static infinite universe was first proposed by English astronomer Thomas Digges (1546–1595). In contrast to this model, Albert Einstein proposed a temporally infinite but spatially finite model - static eternal universe - a
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Cosmological model in which the universe does not expand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_universe
date created:
2005-11-01T02:10:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T13:02:02Z
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