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Hey, methinks the title text maybe referring to the lesbegue measure(which for a point is zero) since we are talking about sizes.--[[User:Jassi101|Jassi101]] ([[User talk:Jassi101|talk]]) 08:21, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 
Hey, methinks the title text maybe referring to the lesbegue measure(which for a point is zero) since we are talking about sizes.--[[User:Jassi101|Jassi101]] ([[User talk:Jassi101|talk]]) 08:21, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 
:No need to invoke complicated math to state that when something expands from zero size to universe size then at some time it must take on any value in between, and thus also fit on this comics drawing. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:47, 12 December 2019 (UTC)  <--- not true if you allow a couple expansions via the higher-order dimensions, then the universe pops back into 3-D with a zero-time-lag & thus a genuine discontinuity without even any Gibbs Overshoot.  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 20:12, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 
:No need to invoke complicated math to state that when something expands from zero size to universe size then at some time it must take on any value in between, and thus also fit on this comics drawing. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:47, 12 December 2019 (UTC)  <--- not true if you allow a couple expansions via the higher-order dimensions, then the universe pops back into 3-D with a zero-time-lag & thus a genuine discontinuity without even any Gibbs Overshoot.  [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 20:12, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 
The explanation of the title text is now long and complicated and, for me, hard to follow. Couldn't we just say something simple like this? "Randall's universe diagram is always at least one pixel thick. But the universe started much smaller than one pixel and expanded to the size it is today, so at some time instant it must have passed through the size of Randall's diagram -- making the diagram 'actual size' at that instant." Wouldn't something simple like this be better? I'd do this myself but I'm leery of deleting a lot of other people's writing. [[User:DKMell|DKMell]] ([[User talk:DKMell|talk]]) 20:29, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 
  
 
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