It also depends on what is considered the universe. Just the matter within or all the matter and what it is expanding into. The matter is considered to be finite and measurable. (issues here)
The Big Bang was a singularity that expanded into nothing.
Any definition put to nothing makes it something, (Stir that around for a while).
This nothing becomes something as our universe expands into it and any attempt to go beyond that boundary puts something which is still tied to our universe into nothing which makes the nothing something. So in effect, the universe is unbounded, ergo infinite.
With that said, it also depends upon the structure of space-time and the matter contained within that creates a curvature which binds the universe within itself creating the 'illusion' of infinity were one to try and escape.
There are a myriad of other theories and few agree on any one.
I believe it to be unbounded and infinite.
The Big Bang was a singularity that expanded into nothing.
Any definition put to nothing makes it something, (Stir that around for a while).
This nothing becomes something as our universe expands into it and any attempt to go beyond that boundary puts something which is still tied to our universe into nothing which makes the nothing something. So in effect, the universe is unbounded, ergo infinite.
With that said, it also depends upon the structure of space-time and the matter contained within that creates a curvature which binds the universe within itself creating the 'illusion' of infinity were one to try and escape.
There are a myriad of other theories and few agree on any one.
I believe it to be unbounded and infinite.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
