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Euclid’s geometry was believed to be true – a precise description of reality … it provided important evidence that human thought could penetrate the nature of ultimate truth…

John Barrow (2000)



Newton clung to the Stoic picture of a finite world surrounded by an infinite void space. He could imagine an empty space but not the absence of space itself.

John Barrow (2000)



If the expansion did have a beginning then we are faced with further questions: is this ‘beginning’ merely the start of the expansion of the Universe that we see today or is it the Beginning, in every sense, of the entire physical Universe?

John Barrow (2000)



Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than ever Einstein could have imagined.

John Barrow (2000)



If the forces of electricity and magnetism are to exist in our world today then monopoles must be formed in the early Universe.

John Barrow (2000)



We’re talking about an overestimate by a factor of about 10 followed by 120 zeroes!

John Barrow (2000)



As we try to reconstruct the past history of these cosmologies, we encounter a striking feature. If matter and radiation continue to behave as they do today, and Einstein’s theory continues to hold, then there will be a past time when the expansion must have encountered a state of infinite density and temperature.

John Barrow (2000)