How big is the universe?

[Brian37]

I always imagined it to be infinite

We don't actually know that part yet and we may never know. 

What science is running away from is the idea that a super cognition is required as a starting point.

Based on the science I have read, I view it as both finite and infinite. 

And actually that really isn't that far from middle school math, where you draw a finite line on a piece of paper and between the two ends you can have in infinite number of integers. 

Think of a light switch. It is off for a while but the "off" is temporary and leads to an "on" but the on is also temporary and eventually goes back to "off" meaning running out of energy. 

But the cycle from no energy, to energy back to nothing, that part I can see as infinite. I simply see no super cognition needed for the cycle to happen. No different than our planet changes seasons. Each season is finite, but the cycle repeats.

It is hard for many to fathom but my understanding is that "all this" be it one universe, or parallel or bubble "multiverse", is that regardless, some QM string and m theory scientists are saying this could be a giant wave function. Kinda like when you boil water and the heat evaporates to nothing. 

I have no problem with infinite as long as you are not saying a super cognition is the puppeteer of a perpetual motion machine. Of to on to of to on to of to on ect ect, as each are finite, but the cycle is infinite.