Is the universe infinite?

[Malak]

How can you say "this" when you apparently have no clue what "this" means. What do you mean by "reach it?" Reach what?? Unbounded means that there isn't an edge. It's finite, but there's no edge.

If it's finite, how can there be no reachable end?

 

[guyver01]

If it's finite, how can there be no reachable end?

the edge of the universe is moving at X speed
you are moving at Y speed

X > Y

therefore you will not reach the end

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

If it's finite, how can there be no reachable end?

Is the surface of a sphere infinite? Where is its reachable end?

 

[Malak]

the edge of the universe is moving at X speed
you are moving at Y speed

X > Y

therefore you will not reach the end

But that is assuming I can't travel faster than the expansion, if there is any expansion.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

The universe is certainly not known to be finite. Many popular and contemporary cosmological models suggest that the set of world lines that appear to originate at the Big Bang merely exist in one local patch of space time, which itself exists among an infinite collection of similar patches.

See here for additional reading.

 

[lxskllr]

I think our notion of what the universe is will be severely shaken in the future. I'm betting there's A LOT more to things than we know.

 

[rudeguy]

I think our notion of what the universe is will be severely shaken in the future. I'm betting there's A LOT more to things than we know.

I think that anyone who thinks they understand this kind of thing really has no clue.

 

[Udgnim]

from my understanding, it is expanding faster than we can observe

so from our perspective, it is infinite

 

[lxskllr]

I think that anyone who thinks they understand this kind of thing really has no clue.

We're like an ant on the sidewalk trying to figure out what the world's about. He might have a solid understanding within a 100m sphere, but his mind would be blown if he knew what was really out there.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I think that anyone who thinks they understand this kind of thing really has no clue.

I think that every theoretical physicist has a recurring nightmare that someone finally finds the grand unifying theory that explains away quantum mechanics, and it turns out to be relatively simple, leaving no room for FTL travel, teleportation, or free energy.

 

[Malak]

I think our notion of what the universe is will be severely shaken in the future. I'm betting there's A LOT more to things than we know.

The more you learn, the less you know.

 

[sandorski]

We merely exist on the Electron of some Giants Atom!

 

[lxskllr]

We merely exist on the Electron of some Giants Atom!

That thought's crossed my mind, kind of anyway. It seems like everything orbits something else, from very small, to very large. It wouldn't surprise me if our universe was circling something even bigger.

 

[guyver01]

It wouldn't surprise me if our universe was circling something even bigger.

The universe exists as part of the body of a being who we cannot even begin to comprehend.

 

[krylon]

your mom's asshole is infinite