infinite space?

Question

how can space be infinite.There's always something on the other side of something

Answer 1

I love this question. Think about it. Our minds can not even grasp the concept of infinite let alone what is on the other side. By definition infinite means without boundary. On the other hand we are in a constantly expanding universe. It seems to me that infinite is just a perception of reality to make us feel smarter than we are. To say that there is something beyond infinity would require a person to think in a different concept of reality. I know what I know so, to answer your question I don't know.

Answer 2

Umm-m, your suggestion that there is "always" and end to the "infinite" is based upon how many years of observation??? Could we guess that your personal
observation has been less than 20 years.

Some of the most distant Stars detected by the Hubble
Space Telescope were several thousand thousands of light years away from the Earth. While that is not an
"infinite" distance, for all practical purposes it works out
to be infinite.

Our solar system is hurtling toward the Star "Antares" which is nine times larger than our Sun (also a Star) at 40,000 miles per hour. But, we won't get there for a billion years. In terms of what you or I might see in our lifetimes, forget it...It will never happen. That is also close to an infinite amount of time for all practical purposes.

Answer 3

What some scientists say is that space seems to be "curved", and that if you set out in a straight line outwards in any direction you would never come to find the "end" of space, therefore it would seem "infinite" You would instead somehow "curve" around with it and return to the same spot again from where you started eventually after a billion-gazillion light years of travel. And you would somehow be unable to escape from this curvature, at least within the dimensions that we so far know of. I hope this makes it clear for you, cuz then maybe you could explain it to me. Thanx.

Answer 4

this is actually a common misconception about the universe. read http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0009F0CA-C523-1213-852383414B7F0147

space is not infinite. the universe is four-dimensional, but if you can imagine a two-dimensional version then it seems to be something like the surface of a sphere. it is this surface that is expanding. it is finite in size yet has no center and no edge. nothing, not even space-time seems to exist "outside" the universe.

incidentally, the universe began about 13 700 000 000 (13.7 billion) years ago, and the expansion of the universe increased suddenly for a tiny fraction of a second when it was still only a slightly bigger tiny fraction of a second old. this is called the inflationary period. at the end of this period, the universe was about one meter across. after this super-fast expansion, the expansion rate began to slow.

when the universe was about 380 000 years old, it had expanded and cooled enuf for free electrons to combine with atomic nuclei to form atoms (about 74 percent hydrogen and 26 percent helium). light was then free to pass unscattered by the free electrons so the universe became transparent. before this time, the universe was much like a heavy fog. today, we see this light stretched to microwave wavelengths, and we see it in every direction we look, but the universe was much smaller then than it is now. this is the cosmic microwave background. even tho the universe is 13 700 000 000 years old, the cmb is at least 46 000 000 000 light-years away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_cosmology
http://universeadventure.org/
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmo_01.htm

Answer 5

Space may or may not be infinite, but we can only see a finite part of it. We have an "event horizon" at 13.7 Billion lightyears, and we cannot see beyond that, although we know that there must be something beyond that. If early Inflation is corect, then there is quite a lot beyond that---much more than we can see. It may be infinite, but we'll never see infinitely far away.

Answer 6

If the universe is countless, it can not get any larger, so it quite is faulty to assert the countless universe is increasing. no count if the universe is finite or countless, the gap in it quite is increasing; that in simple terms ability that the distances between table sure gadgets is increasing. If area is countless and homogeneous, then sure; count is likewise countless. people who believe all of the priority that exists is constrained to a finite area, have calculated the utmost a threat quantity of count and the utmost a threat length of the gap. that's the place huge Bang concept comes from. they believe the finite universe is increasing, yet they don't know if it quite is going to keep increasing for ever. There are distinctive stages of infinity. The set of counting numbers is countless, however the set of genuine numbers is infinitely larger. even nevertheless there are a limiteless form of counting numbers, pi isn't considered one of them; you are able to count form for ever and you will never get to pi. further, the form of available planets is countless, yet maximum of them are impossible. Even the form of cutting-edge planets, nevertheless countless, may be under the form of a threat planets. This gets into larger arithmetic, and that i'm not a mathematician. yet my concept is that each planet is unique, even in a limiteless universe.

Answer 7

actually scientifically, infinite word is imaginary which is denotion to endless limit which is yet to be defined
since there r lot of secrets to be located yet (which is also considered as imaginaryi.e how many) so we say space is infinite

Answer 8

That's your mortal mind thinking. Everything in our world is three dimensional. It is how we are programmed to think with our limited senses. In the after life, our senses will be expanded. We will then be able to see everything, take in everything and comprehend everything we take in. our dimensional take, will also be expanded to infinite.

Answer 9

the universe is expanding at the rate of speed of light so its pretty much infinite...

Answer 10

Sounds like a definition of infinity.