Universe Infinity Debate
The cluster revolves around debates on whether the universe is finite or infinite, distinguishing the observable finite portion from the potentially infinite whole, and exploring implications like infinite matter, gravity, and expansion.
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Not if the universe is infinite i suppose?
Isn't the universe potentially infinite?
An infinite Universe makes the most sense, let's adopt that
That's likely our observable portion of the infinite universe. It doesn't mean the universe is finite.
Wouldn't that be infinite universe theory?
Why would an infinite universe necessarily contain infinite matter?
Sounds like the start of a proof by contradiction that the universe is not infinite, merely very, very, very large :)
How would you determine if the Universe is finite or infinite?
It's only been a finite time since the universe was very small, so unless it's expanding infinitely fast, I don't see how it could be infinite
The universe isn't infinite. If that'd be the case, there'd be infinite matter, and therefore infinite gravity, and we'd all be reduced to black hole singularities :-)