What is the Universe expanding into..

[Galu]

Your favorite response in math class?

Don't be daft!

That would be number soup. 😀

 

[Disco-Pete]

I can definitely identify with your maths teacher. 😊

 

[Galu]

Yes, she had a five o'clock shadow and calloused hands as well! 😆

 

[TNT]

The use of single quotation marks (') around a word refers to the concept of the word rather than the word itself.

Not what I found out. You know what we do both hands and the double finger gesture - that indicate quotation marks....

Lets leave it...?

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[Galu]

Not what I found out.

Lets leave it...?

That sounds like a cop-out to me! 🤟

 

[TNT]

Perhaps yes.

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[Disco-Pete]

Not what I found out. You know what we do both hands and the double finger gesture - that indicate quotation marks....

Lets leave it...?

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Do you mean like 'behind'?

..or render it 'in the past'?

..or possibly 'forget about it'?

 

[mdardeniz]

I like this:
"In the fifth century BCE, the Pythagorean Archytas of Tarentum described a paradox that aimed to demonstrate the absurdity of having a material edge to the Universe. His argument would have a considerable career in all future debates on space: if I were at the extremity of the sky, could I extend my hand or stick out a staff? It is absurd to think that I could not; and if I could, that which is found beyond is either a material body, or space. I could therefore move beyond this once again, and so on. If there is always a new space towards which I can extend my hand, this clearly implies an expanse without limits. There is therefore a paradox: if the Universe is finite, it has an edge, but this edge can be passed through indefinitely."

 

[Disco-Pete]

apparently not even space exists beyond the universe.

 

[Disco-Pete]

Perhaps yes.

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You must mean 'perhaps' yes.

 

[TNT]

The apostrophe has three uses: 1) to form possessive nouns; 2) to show the omission of letters; and 3) to indicate plurals of letters, numbers, and symbols.

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[mchambin]

My maths teacher once declared that she "would be better off teaching pigs".
The comment was prompted by me laughing out loud in class during one of her lengthy monologues.
There was no pleasing that woman. At least for once I had stayed awake in her class! 😀

I was told or a teacher who said "I won't answer your question, you would not understand the answer".

 

[Galu]

The apostrophe has three uses...

The apostrophe is not the same as the quotation mark (inverted comma).

Single quotation marks can set off a specific word in British usage (I ‘truly’ cannot stand that woman), similar to italicizing for emphasis in American usage.

I presume that Pete's is a form of Canadian usage, which I'll leave up to him to explain!!

 

[Galu]

...if I were at the extremity of the sky, could I extend my hand or stick out a staff?

 

[Disco-Pete]

The apostrophe is not the same as the quotation mark (inverted comma).

Single quotation marks can set off a specific word in British usage (I ‘truly’ cannot stand that woman), similar to italicizing for emphasis in American usage.

I presume that Pete's is a form of Canadian usage, which I'll leave up to him to explain!!

I'll leave it up to 'you' to surmise.

 

[Disco-Pete]

The apostrophe has three uses: 1) to form possessive nouns; 2) to show the omission of letters; and 3) to indicate plurals of letters, numbers, and symbols.

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You otoh appear to be our..let's see...umm..hmmm...our in house 'english desperado'?

 

[Disco-Pete]

Goes to show how education often limits intelligence.

 

[Galu]

I was told (by) a teacher who said "I won't answer your question, you would not understand the answer".

My talents were never fully appreciated at school. 😉

 

[Galu]

Goes to show how education often limits intelligence.

Your intelligence must know no boundaries! 😊

 

[Disco-Pete]

I see I've hit another 'nerve'.