because if it goes on forever, then there is no scale, so there is everything and nothing., and if its still expanding, then well that just makes no sense and does not bare thinking about, for the obvious reasons! what do you all think!!
2006-09-07 13:21:30 · 18 answers · asked by lee s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think that you are misinformed.
The observable universe is calculated to be 156 billion light-years across. That is big but not infinitely big,
We cannot know (by definition) how big the unobservable universe is and to say that it is infinite because we don't know how big it is and have no means of knowing is both woolly and unscientific.
You have picked this idea up by rumours spread by people who don't know what the answer is but want to sound as if they know and as "infinite" sounds impressive, that is what they say, But it is tittle-tattle and intellectually lazy to repeat it.
As regards being infinitely small, we now know of a host of particles smaller than atoms, but even so, quarks, leptons, bosons, etc have a definite mass and size and as far as we know cannot be subdivided and are not made up of anything smaller
2006-09-07 15:05:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Infinity works both ways, it goes on forever and every part of us can be divided infinately too. There could be whole universes within you and our world could be within some greater being. Life is a mysterious thing, nothing should be taken at face value. We know and understand very little of existance. If you find infinity hard to comprehend and place it into what you see around you, think that what you see isn't the whole picture. In this world we are born and die, there are beginnings and ends, but that dosn't mean that everything has a beginning and an end that is just our experience. If us existing is possible any thing is possible, open your mind.
2006-09-07 13:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by harvestmoon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When neutrinos emitted from the sun can pass through the earth without striking anything, then matter at that level must be like wide open space for the neutrino.
It's hard to comprehend an end to how big or how small things can be. It has to go on forever.
2006-09-07 15:45:30 · answer #3 · answered by simon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well! you are certainly correct in your logic. No scale, no true size to calculate from! But what if all atoms are based on a universal law? How would it seem to you if the chair you are sitting in reading this blog contained two trillion universes! with solar systems, comets! meteors! You would never know, would you? Or may be our universe is part of a seat in someones toilet! or worse yet we may be some ones excreta!!!! You never know, do you!?
2006-09-07 15:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by wheeliebin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The universe isn't infinite, nothing is. In size you can go so small that the matter can't exist in this dimension. It would fall through the fabric of time/space.
2006-09-07 19:48:45 · answer #5 · answered by aorton27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-07 13:26:48 · answer #6 · answered by parshooter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously.
2006-09-07 18:59:30 · answer #7 · answered by Phlodgeybodge 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is infinitely small. We have yet to discover the smallest particle size.
2006-09-07 13:27:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infinity is neither big nor small. It isn't a size thing.
2006-09-07 13:33:07 · answer #9 · answered by Belinda B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infinitely small?
It depends what you're comparing it to.
2006-09-07 13:29:47 · answer #10 · answered by Swampy_Bogtrotter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋