If space is infinite, it has no beginning and no end, thus it must not be infinite.?

Question

It had to start somewhere. help.

Why do I feel it had to start somewhere? because the "big" band didn't just happen out of nothingness, space is just a vacuum, agreed, but how was it created, thus it must have had a beginning

I agree that it just "space" A non thing! But look beyond the concept of "nothing"...other than the religious point of view,which I also accept..as I have no way to argue that. We are still left with "nothing"..space. If the "big bang" was an implosion that could have created "space" therefore, space must have boundaries.

Answer 1

Space has been called "finite, yet unbounded". One way of thinking of this is that the universe could be shaped like something called a hypershpere (a sphere with four dimensions), in other words, think of it being shaped like the earth with an extra dimension (if you can't picture the fourth dimension, don't worry, almost nobody can, the human brain can't easily comprehend it). In theory, you could travel completely around the universe and come back to the point where you started from, just like flying around the earth and coming back to where you started from.
The "Big Bang" would be located in our past, in the "center" of our four-dimensional universe (time is like the fourth dimension, in a way), like the core is at the center of our earth.
This isn't technically correct, but it should help give you a description that might help you understand it.

Answer 2

The proof is very simple though the thing is very great .Great things are always very simple and so simple that we do not take care of them or care to understand them:

Hereunder is my proof of the infinite character of space :
Only when somethng has no limits and of any sort , beginning , end , depth or height or any sort of circumscription , it is called infinite. That is it should have no finality . -should have no finite measurements , or boundaries or limits .
space is nothing - It is a void - emptiness. A "thing" which is a "thing" will have some limits and shape. Even invisible things like gases are like that . . Anything that is a matter will have a shape and limits of boundaries..But "VOID" - emptiness , being "NOTHING " can have no shape or boundary. In the entire univese there is nothing except the the only thing "space" , that can not have a shape . Space alone is the only thing that can not have any boundary or limits . This situation is simply inconceivable .to the human mind as it is used to a closed environment bounded by the force of gravity within the atmosphere of the earth . Anything without boundary will be beyond the field of vision of anything .That is a "singular" character that can never been seen at any time . It is emptiness . Emptiness is nothing . So it is "NO THING" .Because it is not a thing , it has no boundaries. It can be without boundary.If there are no bounaries , it is inifinity. It has no shape as it is not a "thing" (NO THING). But if that "No Thing" - the emptiness is not there , nothing can exst . If only there is some space , anything can exist . If therei s no space ,how can anything exist.? We say that there is space when there is nothing . Nothing is space .- nothing means , a thing or anything not being present - "vacant" . But we say that there is "space". space is "available " etc..Can we take a litttle bit of what we say "is" or what is "available" as space (emptiness) and keep it elsewhere ? Not possible .
It is the only thing that is a being of "NON-BEING"
When some thing has no boundary or limit , depth or height , how can it be finite? (finite means ,having limits ). So abscence of boundaries is infinity only.
It is neither big nor small. If it is big , there must be somehting igger and if it is small,. there must be something smaller too. If it is finite , there must be something beyond it. Because finite things should have limits and boundaries . . What could it be ? it should also be space or emptiness .so it is all space that can be without boundary merely becasue of the simple reason that it is "NO THING" at all. But it is stll thing a Being , though a "Non-being " .
. It can not be touched , it is unseen , unborn, undying , beginning less and endless . it has no middle . It is immovable ;, can not be divided and things stand divided in it . It is immovable , but things need it to move in . Things can not move it or move without it .Water never wets it ;. fire never burns it . Everything depeds on it for existence and it does not depend on anything for its existence ;. because it is nothing a "NO THING '. Even a speck of dust requires it to exist in..The universe itself depends on it to exist in and move in it.. Even a speck of dust needs it to exist .Every thing needs a space , to the minimum of its most compressible volume , to exist. All matters in the universe require the electrons and protons in the atoms of the elements of which they are composed of .; but the great space does not require the electrons and protons or any elements for its existence , but the electrons and protons and the atoms of all the subsances require the great space for thier existence . So it is a "NO THING" that is greater than the most powerful things that have made the universe and all the lives in it .It is in it that all things exist . It pervades everything. It is it's character of being nothing that gives it the quality of being infinite .It is the only THING that is also a "NOTHING"
' " The whole universe is pervaded
my unmanifest form;
all creatures exist in me ,
but I do not exist in them"

"though myself unborn, undying
the lord of creatures , i fashion nature
which is mine , and I come into being
through my own magic"

"The whole universe is pervaded
by my unmanifest form;
all creatures exist in me ,
but I do not exist in them"

"I am th eheat that witholds
and sends down the rains;
I am immortality and death;
both being and non-being am I"
(Lord krishna in Bhagavad -Gita)

Answer 3

Understanding 'space' Time/Space, requires a comprehension ability not yet available to human brains.
Consider that we define the unknown with known parameters, It is more likely that what appears as 'infinite' to us, is but a limition beyond our understanding. The curiousity stems from the inability to actually look to the stars with a viewpoint of 'Now'. Distance's like that of light years, is a concept that requires a perspective beyond the experience of man. Consider looking to the outer bounderies of our universe, we see what was billions of light years ago. So the question becomes not of infinite space, but of 'What is Time'?

Answer 4

Your statement is contradictory, If it has not beginning and no end, it must be infinite. If your talking about inifinite in duration, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows that the universe began with the Big Bang. If you are talking about infinite in size, it is finite, but has no boundary.

Answer 5

It depends on your beliefs really. I believe there was a beginning to the universe and that there will be an end (See the Bible, especially Genesis and Revelations). However, God had no beginning nor will He have an end. He truly is infinite as he was uncreated. The universe, the world, and everything else is finite. It did have a beginning, it was created.

Answer 6

Things with no beginning and no end are infinite.

Perhaps the beginning has not been found yet, so we can't say for sure it's infinite or finite. That's why some people like to call it the unknown.

Answer 7

I've said this in other questions, but if space has a beginning and end then what possibly could be beyond space? Whatever it is, it will need 'space' to exist.

Space is simply the 'space' between matter. Between you and your pc there is 'space'.

Answer 8

Tthe farthest galaxy is about 13 billion light years away, making the diameter of the universe about 30 billion light years.

Answer 9

space is infinite,time is eternal. everything in motion travels in a radius. the alpha & omega are the same point in space & time.

Answer 10

Well - if I write the number infinity, is it infinite? It began when I wrote it... But that is not the number, only the expression of the number.