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interstellaryeller On August 04, 2009




Akron, Ohio
#1New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 04:26:56
Space has always been and will always be infinite, in every direction you look. The universe is finite but is expanding out in all directions like a bubble, and the expansion is accelerating with every passing second. Currently the universe is roughly 14 billion lightyears across and began somewhere in the center. Eventually every planet, nebula, star, even black holes will decay into the simplest form of matter. The proton. Expanding for eternity. In total absolute darkness.
Boppin_Guy On March 01, 2024




No Place,
#2New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 04:27:57
TeyeLA On October 11, 2009




BRISBANE!, Australia
#3New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 04:30:15
Good to know :D
Boppin_Guy On March 01, 2024




No Place,
#4New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 04:31:03
And I do agree with the OP, I think space is infinite.
raditz8526 On July 02, 2009

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, Minnesota
#5New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 05:00:15
Good. So we do have somewhere to store our nuclear waste.
jonnythan On August 02, 2014
Bringer of rad mirth


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Here and there,
#6New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 05:02:29
Well...

Maybe. Maybe not.
JuanSmith On September 11, 2020
Shilsh-Aash yatasay





Near Eucalyptus Trees, Califor
#7New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 05:17:44


infinite eh? is there an actual way to measure infinity? or is it maybe just that we cannot comprehend the actual size?
young_nick On December 11, 2010
The Dude





Auckland, New Zealand
#8New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 05:25:22
@JuanSmith Said



infinite eh? is there an actual way to measure infinity? or is it maybe just that we cannot comprehend the actual size?



Exactly.
Space isn't so much infinite as no-sided, anyway.
Skyseeker On November 01, 2009




idk,
#9New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 05:49:13
WEll heres some food for thought you stated the third law of thermodynamics all things are going to decay and die eventually I agree. Evolution however, says otherwise. The Philosophy of evolution states that all things evolving and moving toward perfection. But they are not, they are moving towards death. Yes we live longer now, but because we have managed to solve the massive amount of medical problems and disease that keep getting worse and worse.
jonnythan On August 02, 2014
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Here and there,
#10New Post! Nov 15, 2008 @ 05:55:42
Evolution is not a philosophy, and evolution says nothing about moving towards perfection.

Evolution is a biological process. It cannot, and does not, defy the laws of thermodynamics. The overall entropy of a system will never decrease. The universe is tending towards heat death, where all energy and matter has reached equilibrium and no additional work can be done.

No biological process can ever overcome that.
sunandsurf13 On June 29, 2009

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Sydney, Australia
#11New Post! Dec 27, 2008 @ 18:10:17
@interstellaryeller Said

Space has always been and will always be infinite, in every direction you look. The universe is finite but is expanding out in all directions like a bubble, and the expansion is accelerating with every passing second. Currently the universe is roughly 14 billion lightyears across and began somewhere in the center. Eventually every planet, nebula, star, even black holes will decay into the simplest form of matter. The proton. Expanding for eternity. In total absolute darkness.



Perhaps you, or someone else here, can answer a question/s I have always wondered about.
I'm not a scientist so this will sound dumb. But I really struggle with the spatial concept of 'infinite' - if the universe is everything, and keeps expanding, what was there before, in the space it expanded into?
And if you agree with the notion that the universe expands not outward but into itself - doesn't that confirm that the universe must have a finite border or edge? And if it does, what is outside of that?
How can there be nothing else but universe?

Okay, that's enough. I'm getting a headache.
lanesrA On June 12, 2010




, United Kingdom
#12New Post! Dec 27, 2008 @ 18:14:21
https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L_9BXy4GF74&feature=related

This was a great programme on BBC the other day....this will answer your question about the 'infinity' of space. Albeit a theory.
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