(May 2, 2022 at 11:49 pm)JairCrawford Wrote:(May 2, 2022 at 10:34 pm)Jehanne Wrote: We've been through this before. Physical models of beginningless, infinite and eternal Universes exist in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Right but the implications of it went completely over my head before.
So if we are dealing with an open geometry… we have the observable universe. I’ve read some people have made estimations of how much bigger the universe could be beyond our observable universe and I think the number that came out of the study was some 270 times larger than the observable universe.
That’s huge. But… how can that be if we have an infinite universe? 270 times the size of the observable universe still implies a finite number of galaxies does it not?
And if we are talking truly infinite, in the purest sense… how far does it go? Are we talking, “we have doppelgängers on an almost identical earth somewhere with minor fluctuations over and over and over again”?
For me, an infinite Universe, in both space and time, is no different than an infinite set of prime numbers.
