If the Universe is infinite, why do so many scientist's believe it will end one day?

Answer 1

Firstly...
The Universe is not infinite an no one with any education will
say that it is...I suppose this would include you...
Secondly,
The universe is not only expanding but speeding up..
In the far distant future, unless there is some change to the universe, there will be nothing left...Universe as we knew it will be empty space....

Answer 2

Even if the universe wasn't infinite and it was expanding where is it expanding too? Our brains can't imagine how vast the universe is, so infinite is a true statement. We may never get the chance to find out, just like an elephant born on a remote island may never be able to leave. We too may never get the chance to leave this planet and explore the universe. We need a huge boost in technological advancement and alot off money spent on research. Because one day we will have sucked this planet dry, and we will have two choices die or find another home.

You see in alot of sci fi films of aliens invading because there planet is dying, my opinion is that we will be the aliens and possibly one day we may have no choice but to invade someones planet just for survival. And as history goes humans dont ask they shoot first.....What was the question again LOL....sorry got side tracked, too many stella's....

I dont think we need to worry about the universe ending, there are more real problems here, right outside our doors but we have become too lazy and selfish to care. I feel we need to bring back old values to the family, keep the technology.

Answer 3

the universe is not really infinite, some scientist believe that it was created by a huge explosion, and based in some measurements it's in constant expansion. They believe that one day the force of the inicial exploson will be gone, and the universe will start shrinking again until it's destroyed and there's nothing left. This should take several billions of years, but that is what they believe.
I personally don't believe this, I think the universe will go in a cicle like everything in this world, if it destroys itself it will regenerate and be there forever.
I hope I was able to help

Answer 4

[May 2003: Since May 2002 I know that many people made the same conclusion: an ether theory (or: extended Mach's principle) instead of relativity (2-1), a tired light hypothesis instead of expansion redshift (1-2) and cosmic background radiation as the equilibrium temperature of the universe (4-2). They all have found a universe that is endless in both time and space, see for instance the work by the physics professors Assis2, Ghosh3, Marmet11 and Selleri74 , Dr. Van Flandern9 and various authors in Pushing Gravity5.
Some call it a static universe, others a universe in dynamical equilibrium, and in the early 20th century has been spoken of a static steady-state universe (4-1). I like: the infinite universe. Infinite in both space and time. I guess I like to live in an infinite universe. End May 2003]

[October 2003: See also an article by Assis and Neves76 if you want to know more about static universes suggested in the past.
William Mitchell75 describes an extremely old universe in which shrunken remnants of old galaxies can become the nuclei of new galaxies (4-1) as well as AGNs (5-1) and in which radio loud activity by AGNs provides matter for new stars/galaxies (5-2). He has named his universe the recycling universe, it is much the same as the universe described on this website. End October 2003]
Harrison6 reports that the epic poem The Nature of the Universe by Lucretius in 55 BC, discovered in 1417, already awakened the idea of an infinite universe in the 15th and 16th century. In 1576 Thomas Digges was the first to advance a universe with infinite stars in infinite space.
Static steady-state (or infinite) universes neither expand nor contract and what happens now always has happened and will happen, their contents, on the average, never appear to change.
One of the last static steady-state universes was elaborated in the 1920s by the astronomer William MacMillan6. He proposed the theory that stars are formed in the usual way out of interstellar gas; they evolve over a long period of time and slowly radiate away their entire mass. Out in the depths of space, by an unknown mechanism, starlight is reconstituted into atoms and matter6. This static steady-state universe enjoyed fame until the 1930s when, confronted with an expanding universe, it quietly faded away.
The late Dr. Grote Reber has described an infinite universe in 197716. He saw electrons in intergalactic space as transducers of energy from light waves to hectometer waves. The electrons are absorbed by ionized hydrogen gas clouds within the galaxies and the hydrogen clouds are building blocks for making stars. Thus the energy from old hot stars is recycled into unborn stars and thus cosmological redshift is explained16. (Grote Reber, “the pioneer of radio astronomy”, passed away in Tasmania on December 20, 2002. Grote Reber created a 9-meter disk in his backyard in 1937. His disk was responsible for the initial mapping of the Milky Way and his work created a boom in astronomy, which later led to the discoveries of quasars, pulsars and other celestial phenomena. He received the highest awards in astronomy and was a NPA313 member.)
(I rather see gravity/ether particles or dark matter as transducers of energy, 4-2.)

Answer 5

let me see...

first, the universe is not infinite. it is finite yet has not edge and no center. space-time itself seems to have originated with the big bang. the big bang was the entire universe, and everywhere in the universe was once the big bang. space-time is four-dimensional, but if you can imagine a two-dimensional version then it seems to be something like the surface of a sphere. nothing, not even space-time "outside" the universe.

second, the phrase "the end of the universe" may seem to imply that the universe ceases to exist at some time in the distant future, but it isn't really intended to mean that. it is very difficult to make predictions about the distant future because we just don't have enough information.

look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe

Answer 6

Scientists are only guessing, after all they cannot find a cure for the common cold, so how can they predict the end of a universe. Also isn't it also rather self indulgent of the human race to think this planet is the only inhabited one in the universe. Millions of stars and planets. How can this be so.

Answer 7

Scientists I think is the English word you are seeking. Idiot.
Second point - Man's stupidity is infinite QED your question. I was going to cite you as an idiot but I'll leave the obvious inference to those with a modicum of common sense. My question is why are the illiterate so keen to advertise their ignorance. I would especially like to hear from web masters (oxymorons) and journalists who seem to revel in the genocide of the English language

Answer 8

the universe is not infinite, if it was infinite e.g an open universe then yes it would never end, however if the universe is closed it is not infinite and will eventually collapse back in on its self.

Answer 9

the universe isnt actually the objects contained within it, just like time isnt contained within space, or is it?
the scientists believe it will come to an end because they know that what goes up must come down and this is the prevailing law of the universe.

Answer 10

actually the universe isn't infinite it has an end and it has been proved...but it won't definitive end it may collapse and be sucked in in a black hole and the energy of that compression of matter will make a huge explosion, in other words the big bang wil happen again and again...but this will take a long time...don't worry you'll be dead for about 99999999999999999 millions of years by then