(June 9, 2010 at 2:45 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote:(June 9, 2010 at 1:15 pm)theophilus Wrote:Who says our universe is finite?(June 9, 2010 at 2:43 am)WingedFoe Wrote: Imagine being alive and conscious for a googol years, and then a googol googol years after that. It would be absolute torture. One would have had every possible conversation, experienced every possible state of being, and would be doomed to repeat oneself for eternity.This would be true if this life were in a finite universe like the one we live in now but God is infinite so if we are with him there dosn't need to be any limit to the experiences we will have.
Our universe is not finite it is continually growing. Consider a cube that keeps growing represents our universe. The cube can grow as large as the amount of energy available to the cube(which is the combined energy of the universe). There is no end to "space" only the end of matter.. and quite possibly energy, because I believe that without energy matter would cease to exist.(Correct me if I am wrong)
And I don't see how when a human dies it is any different than a chimp, salmon, or fly. We are basically made of the same building blocks. We cease to exist anymore as a complex life form and return to the universe as inanimate matter.
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