(February 3, 2022 at 1:16 pm)Deesse23 Wrote:(February 3, 2022 at 12:17 pm)Jehanne Wrote: True, but, if the Universe's volume is finite at the beginning, then, it will remain so forever. As such, distances on intergalactic scales are increasing, and, hence, so is its volume.
#1 It may finite, but it may not. In the latter case your point is moot
#2 Its expanding into nothing, meaning its just expanding. There is nothing it is expanding into.
When you blow up a balloon, the surface (rubber) just expands. It does not expand into any other surface, like space is not expanding into any space "external" to the universe.
This is the point that I was trying to make to Klorophyll -- the Universe is expanding into nothing.