universe question lol

entr0py
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:43:34 +0000

^ No, that is not correct. The universe is infinite in size

No, that is not correct/incorrect. It is unproven as of now.



Let’s say you go to a hotel to spend the night. You walk in, and it’s just a single floor complex with all the rooms in one hallway. You walk into the hallway, and scan up and down the hall and notice that there are an infinite number of rooms, i.e. there are infinite number of doors on both sides of you, extending down the hallway. Unfortunately, the manager of the hotel tells you that there are no vacancies: all infinite number of hotel rooms are occupied with an infinite number of residents. So what do you do? Simple: you walk up to one of the rooms, knock, and tell the resident of your situation. The solution is that all the residents of the rooms just move over one room to the right (…or left, it doesn’t matter). This makes the central room vacant, and you can spend the night! If another person comes, everyone just moves to the right again, opening up another room! There are infinite number of rooms, so even if there are infinite residents, you can always make room. This is starkly different if there are, say 20 rooms and 20 residents: there is an obvious limit.



Infinite = Infinite. For every room in this hallway, there is a resident. So there are no vacant rooms because the endless number of them are filled endlessy by endless people.



The point is, the infinite universe can expand within itself because of the nature of infinity, there is no end, no barrier that “regular” numbers are limited to. It is literally the expansion of spacetime itself that is always increasing the size of the universe. There is no “X-dimension” it expands into, that’s not allowed in quantum physics.



Alot of things aren’t allowed in Quantum Physics that are allowed in Theoretical Physics generally. String theory is just that, a theory. There could be more than 12 dimensions, so I used the variable X to describe what it is; an unknown.



And I have no idea what you mean by “Existence is infinite”, that’s a pretty vague and senseless statement.

By Existance I mean basic being. A state of being. Everything is. Just Is. Being is infinite. I’m sorry I couldn’t find a better way to phrase it I’m having a hard time putting it into words.