universe....finit or infinit? explain youre answer?
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Many  astronomers think that the Universe is infinite. See, this\nwebsite for the complete explanations.
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If you want "the answer to life, the universe, and everything," then the answer is:\n\n42
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Oh Dear! lots of dodgy maths out there!\nWelcome to Mr Cantor's infinity paradise hotel!\nWe got infinite rooms, but they're all full just now.\nDon't worry!.. we'll squeeze you in!..I'll just get every guest to move one room along\nNow you can get in room1\nHey there's an infinite stretch limo arrived with an infinite number of guests..no probs just get all our guests to move from room n to 2n!\nYes infinity is an uncountable number, but you can still do mathematical ops with it\nHope that helps, you can work out the rest foor yourselves. PS always agree with your wife- she's right even when she's wrong-now that's a true paradox
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If the universe is infinite, it doesn't mean that everywhere is the center, it means that it has no center. Or, if you mean relative to the existing matter...well, that isn't infinite, and has a defined center.
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infinity \n\nand for those people..\n\ninfinity + 1, infinity x infinity\nand infinity ^ infinity
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Your question assumes the first part is correct.  It is just an assumption. We can define the universe as everything that exists - therefore precluding anything bigger. In other words, the universe is it - all there is. It includes all matter, energy, forms, spirits if you will, everything we can conceive of and everything we cannot conceive of.  Okay?
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Well, as far as we know, the universe is infinite. It seems a bit egotistical to assume that we are the only intelligent life in the entire universe.
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****Edit to clarify******\nWhile the professor below is correct, and the poster below him is partially correct, you can only assume that the course is complete if you include the finite answer as an infinate series.\n\nThe prime example of this is that 1.999 repeating is NOT equal to 2.0 unless 2.0 is infinite, ie 2.000000 repeating.  You can not deal with unlike in infinate numbers.  Ie, you can not translate an infinite number to a finite number and still have the same premise.  \n\nSo unless the data deals with an infinate equality, the runner never will reach his destination.\n*********end edit***********\n\nWhile it is true that the runner will finish the course, as we know that every course has a start and ending point; in regards to math, unless the start and end are constants and predefined, the answer is simple:  THe runner will never reach the end.  The reason for this is that without a predefined set of start and end, the course is continous.
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Numbers, such interesting topics. Think of it like this. If you have one tomato, and you add another one, you have two. add another one, you have three. This process never ends. although, scientists are still researching about what infinity is. for now, we shall stick with what we got.
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Fascinating subject:  On the balance of probabilities, if the universe is infinite, someone identical with you, typed the same question, on an identical computer, on an identical forum and is being answered by someone identical with me.    Mind blowing if you think about it.........
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The universe may be infinite in size, or it may be of only finite size. Doesn't the universe have to be infinite? It doesn't make any sense that it would be finite, then there would be some end or edge, and what would be beyond that?\n\nStrange as it may seem, the universe could be finite, a finite universe would not have to have any edges or an end, it could 'wraparound'. The universe could be curved. Huh? How could you curve the universe?\n\nAn analogy should help, consider the surface of the Earth. It looks flat and many children and ancient people might assume that it is flat and that it is either infinite or must have an end or edge somewhere.\n\nBut the Earth's surface is curved, it wraps around and closes in on itself. There is only a finite amount of area yet there is no ends or edges. The two-dimensional flat surface of the Earth is wrapped around into a sphere when viewed in three dimensions. If you set out flying westward in a plane, you will wraparound and eventually return to where you started, approaching from the east.\n\nThe universe may be a curved three-dimensional space that wraps around and closes on itself. If you set out in a spacecraft heading one direction, you could eventually return to the same spot from the opposite direction.\n\n \n\nA nice demonstration of the scale of the universe is to start with a view showing our galaxy and then zoom by a factor of ten once per second. Such a demonstration is done at http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ \n\nClick on this link and view the demo. Use your browser's Back button to return to this page after watching the demo.\n\n\nThe entire universe, or just the visible portion of the universe if its infinite, is roughly 27 billion light-years across. That's 159,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. Our solar system, from the Sun to Pluto, is .00063 light-years across or 3,720,000,000 miles. That makes our solar system 42,700,000,000,000 times smaller than the whole universe.\n\nCan we put that into a more meaningful perspective? If the entire Earth's surface represents the whole universe, the solar system on that scale would be one-millionth of a meter wide, about 1/25,000 of an inch, the size of a single, small bacteria.
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The universe is an indefinite entity.It is bounded by 'nothing' even in the strict sense of modern physics.
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The ... implies an endless continuation of the series.  So the answer is \n\nINFINITY.
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Creation! The meaning of life is what you make of it. The universe is what is there for you to discover. and everithing is what you live for. put them together and the answer is the same: CREATION
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Yes this is a hard topic to understand the only way I can explain it is to imagine that space "curves" onto itself. Thus is finite.\n\nThe reality is an actual infinity can not exist, its something conceptual, impossible lack understanding of what an actual infinity is, it can exist mathematically as an Ideal, but not in reality as that is physically impossible.\n\nLook at the attributes of infinity:\n\n(1) You can not add to infinity\n(2) Any part of infinity is the same as the entire "set"\n\nWhen we trace our Universe back to the big bang we end up with a singularity, this is where "Science and physics break down" it can not be really explained and we have to go to a higher source of knowledge i.e. theology.\n\nWhat I will end on is saying that one of the Attributes of the Creator is that he is infinite.\n\nI hope that helps\n\nAnhar Hussain Miah
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"There is disagreement over whether the Universe is finite or infinite in spatial extent and volume.\n\n"However, the observable Universe, consisting of all locations that could have affected us since the Big Bang given the finite speed of light, is certainly finite. The edge of the cosmic light horizon is 13.7 billion light years (4.19 gpc) distant. The present distance (comoving distance) to the edge of the observable Universe is larger, since the Universe has been expanding; it is estimated to be about 78 billion light years (7.8 × 1010 light years, or 7.4 × 1023 km). This would make the comoving volume, of the known Universe, equal to 1.9 × 1033 cubic light years (assuming this region is perfectly spherical). The observable Universe contains about 7 × 1022 stars, organized in about 100 billion galaxies, which themselves form clusters and superclusters. The number of galaxies may be even larger, based on the Hubble Deep Field observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope discovered galaxies such as Abell 1835 IR1916, which are over 13 billion light years from Earth.\n\n"Both popular and professional research articles in cosmology often use the term "Universe" when they really mean "observable Universe". This is because unobservable physical phenomena are scientifically irrelevant; that is, they cannot affect any events that we can perceive. See also Causality (physics).\n\nWe live in the centre of the Universe that we observe, in apparent contradiction to the Copernican principle which says that the Universe is more or less uniform and it has no distinguished centre. This is simply because light does not travel infinitely fast, and we make observations of the past. As we look further and further away, we see things from epochs (times) closer and closer to the limit of time, which equals zero, according to the Big bang model. Since light travels at the same speed in any direction towards us, it is reasonable to suggest that we live at the center of our observable Universe."
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In the infinite universe it is very very likely that the number of Gods is infinite, too. Each God must have a God superior than herself. That is all to it. Either the Gods are limitless or there is no God at all. This is logic . The rest is nothing more than rubbish thinking or "feeling" as they might call it.....