Still, I figured we'd had enough debates along these lines recently and decided it'd be more fun just to "roll with it."

I'm glad to hear it. If this sort of untestable "science" had turned up in a certain other thread, it would have put a big hole in my (and, frankly, Karl Popper's) exposition of science as being all about demonstrability and falsifiability...

I hadn't heard the result mentioned in the article, that microwave anisotropy statistics rule out a closed spherical universe -- I thought this was still a very contested issue. And there's a big step between ruling out closed spherical, and ruling in infinite. But anyone whose head isn't messed-up enough by this yet should go and read Borges' The Library Of Babel, which was written (I think) during an earlier period when science suspected the universe of being infinite.

Peter