The Universe someday will cease to exist, the Holy Dream will end. So the question is “is our physical universe of matter and energy finite with empty space going on forever around it?” Or does our universe contain an infinite amount of matter? Space is a part of universe when it is included as the distance between two stars or bodies. One theory suggests that the great beyond of our universe might simply … This means that, at present, we know that the universe i… I highly doubt that we could or will ever discover the means to get far enough away from it to avoid being swallowed up. Because of your limited ant perspective, the otherwise sphere-shaped balloon suddenly feels like a flat surface. Spaces that have an edge are difficult to treat, both conceptually and mathematically. It doesn’t fit with relativity or the evidence, though. I like when Fraser posts these kinds of posts. We have no idea if ours is the only universe. It is dynamic (unlike the static Aether of old) but non-directional (“non-local”) and cannot be detected by a vector dependent experiment like that of Michelson-Morley. Many finite mathematical spaces, e.g., a disc, have an edge or boundary. Finding the right answers is hard enough. One of the strongest theories for the geometry of the universe is that it is like a giant expanding balloon. If someone hands me a closed cardboard box, I can then define a “size” for the box, and also what I mean by an “inside” and an “outside”. is “change,” and “change” means that the universe had a “beginning” since it is expanding, hence, it is temporal, hence, it is “finite.”, Now, the problem is science CANNOT figure out if the “spatial size” of the universe is “finite” or “infinite.” It is a logical conundrum. I was just thinking recently that since the universe is expanding, doesn’t that mean new “space” is being “created” all the time?! Science Confirms it: The Clashindarroch Beast is Real! So what do you think? Both behaviors are statistically the same as seen from within their own reference systems. Computer simulations that model the birth of the microwave background create this pattern once every few hundred runs. However, if ,as scientists tell us, we see evidence of the big bang and inflation every direction we look, then this would be the wrap-around. Good, it’s supposed to. I wish I could study more for a deeper insight but that depth seems to be infinite as well . Galaxies “appear” to be moving further apart, but not because of a “big bang.”. But an infinite universe has no size by definition. We will probably never know. What we know with certainty is that the Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, meaning that is the age of the universe. It truly is a mind boggling question that makes you go bonkers, ..ahem.. [ 6-Year-Old Debuts as Weatherman, Mr. Rogers Documentary is Coming, And We Are Thrilled. Consider your example above, “if you travel outwards from Earth, eventually you will reach a place where there’s a duplicate …”, the distance travelled is measurable (albeit mind numbingly vast) and therefore finite, the “duplicate of you”, can’t be an exact duplicate, because if it were, it wouldn’t be where you found it, it would already be at a distance from where you are then, equal to the distance of there to where you started from, equally failing to find it’s “first” (your second) duplicate for the same reason. So, BIG, yes, but definitely finite. Either way, bounded or boundless, the universe or redefined universe is infinite. Definitely Finite. In another episode of Guide to Space, we talked: “how big is our Universe”. . So can not be finite. I was not referring to taking a bus with Zeno for a distance. For IN HIM we live, and move, and have our being. If there was an edge, “beyond” would by definition have to operate with different causal rules (because if it operated by the same causal rules it … First, the observable universe is the one we have size estimates for, because I repeat, we don’t even know if the entire universe is infinite or finite, so size measurements don’t make any sense. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. As a result the overall gravitational force would cause matter to confine to a finite distribution. A rational answer to these questions is that there is something beyond the material universe — a creator, an unlimited being that shares of itself with us. Observers internal to such a universe will observe it to be open and infinite, even though externally the bubble universe is finite and geometrically closed. From our standpoint they are observationally superimposed. It would be interesting, to say the least, to see what the Universe looks like from THAT perspective. It has been one of the most complicated unsolved mysteries all along. This is similar to the surface of earth but with another dimension. Assuming a finite universe, the universe can either have an edge or no edge. I think all that makes our universe must be limited and if you could go far enough there is probably another universe and many others out there in their own stage of development. Our Sun, once it spends all the hydrogen will turn into a red giant and grow so big its size will reach Earth and beyond. Modern religion, which is as different from traditional religion as modern science is from the ‘science’ of 500 years ago, now sees ‘God’ as the infinite (obviously incomprehensible) power behind the infinite universe, represented here by periodic Educators who tell us of closer and closer approximations of true Reality. It can last for an incredibly long time, no pun intended. We have to accept the definition of what the universe is. So, what’s out there? This is just another reason to believe that the universe has expanded, even beyond our exploration capabilities. In the 19th century, Doppler tried to explain an unusual phenomenon about electromagnetic waves: if and observer moves towards or … The universe is infinite. If the universe is finite, what would beyond the edge of the universe be like? Assuming of course, that other lifeforms haven’t discovered infinite pencil technology, or there’s a pocket dimension containing only pencils. If our Universe consists of our Known stars or that which we can see, or what seems to be part of our Big Bang, then it is finite. “Finiteness” or “Infiniteness” of the universe is one of the many mysteries where scientists run around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to figure out! 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