Since the unverse is expanding, there is no such thing as infinity

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DrPizza

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Uhhhhh, which type of infinity are you talking about?
Countably infinite (aleph nought)?
Or the continuum infinity,
or some higher infinity.

Or, in other words, there are infinitely as many counting numbers as there are even numbers.
But, there are infinitely more irrational numbers than counting numbers.

So, how big is the universe?
Anyway, I've always been under the impression that it was finite, but read something recently about inflation occuring at a rate of infinity or something weird... I had only skimmed the article and set it aside for future reading.
 

TheShiz

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look. there is no such thing as infinity because we exist!

if the universe (or whatever was before the universe) was infinitely old, then infinity would have already had to pass before the big bang, and that is impossible.