From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Gospel According to Tim and Jerry Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:24:56 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Similar to the Hawking-Penrose conjecture about the material universe. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Jablow [mailto:erjablow at netacc.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:17 PM To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Re: The Gospel According to Tim and Jerry "Strong, Lee" wrote: > > Larry Niven classified Dante's Inferno series as science fiction > on the grounds that theology is a branch of science. Well, the universe of the Divine Comedy is quite interesting mathematically. For example, its version of space is a closed, bounded manifold--a 3-sphere. Eric