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The Universe, Finite Or Infinite?


Aloysius

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If it went forever, then we'll never know. If it ended, we wil someday know.

What doI think? Infinte. What is the greatest sign of the worthlessness of a human being in the context of our value to God's when you compare us to something that is infinte?

Maybe God left us a litttle (err BIG) reminder.

God bless,

Mikey

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i can't decide.. lol

in one sense i kinda think well, creation is finite

but in the other sense, there seems to be no end to space and if God wanted to leave us with something in nature to teach us about Himself He would've made it go on forever...

how can infinity exist within the context of time and space and creation?

hmm...

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Thy Geekdom Come

It has to be finite, otherwise it couldn't be a part of creation.

And science agrees with this. Einsteinian phsyics tells us that if it were infinite, the universe would be the inverse shape...flat and curved into a saddle shape.

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Scientifically speaking, it is finite. Science has been drasticly wrong before.

God bless,

Mikey

(I don't mind which it is, as long as I get to understand it when I die, and I gain all the cool knowledge of how everything was going on while I was living (sorta like behind the scenes)).

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RandomProddy

It's possible, but only if "the speed of gravity" is finite. I think it's is but I'm not sure..

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I was listening to something on this the other day...

The Universe is finite. The Universe is all that is space and time. Outside of space time there is nothing. And science teachs in the 2nd Law of Theromodynamics and in the laws of converation of matter and E that there is a limited amount of matter and E. And for every action less E is spent making the action than is put in. Ie your car makes heat. It is things like that.

Al, a good book on it, I hear, is "How Did the Universe Get Its Spots."

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RandomProddy

[quote name='Iacobus' date='Aug 22 2004, 05:12 AM'] The Universe is finite. The Universe is all that is space and time. Outside of space time there is nothing. And science teachs in the 2nd Law of Theromodynamics and in the laws of converation of matter and E that there is a limited amount of matter and E. And for every action less E is spent making the action than is put in. Ie your car makes heat. It is things like that. [/quote]
2nd law:

"It is impossible to obtain a process such that the unique effect is the subtraction of a positive heat from a reservoir and the production of a positive work."

Where does it mention "limited amount of matter" there?

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[quote name='RandomProddy' date='Aug 21 2004, 10:19 PM'] 2nd law:

"It is impossible to obtain a process such that the unique effect is the subtraction of a positive heat from a reservoir and the production of a positive work."

Where does it mention "limited amount of matter" there? [/quote]
LOL! The second Law isn't the same as coservation of matter. Here...

Law of Conservation of Matter: During an ordinary chemical change, there is no detectable increase or decrease in the quantity of matter.

The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form.

Therefore, the total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe is a fixed amount and never any more or less.

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White Knight

I believe it doesn't have an edge, I believe it is Infinite. But I truely wont know until a certian day, that day, I'm not sure when it will come, hopefully soon. :)

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Earth definately has an end with the sun running out of life. What happens with blackholes? Don't all stars (including the sun) turn into blackholes? I think the end will be in the bottom of a blackhole....LOL

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i have no idea...

hehe

real nothingness? that's a concept a human mind can't grasp, it's nothing as in no space at all...

or maybe the universe is round and I can be cristopher columbus, i'll launch a rocketship and keep going strait till i hit the otherside of the planet! hehhe

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