Is infinity ever expanding, or does it stay the same size?

Question

Is there ever more or less of infinity?
Or does it never change size?

Scientifically, is infinity a constant, or variable?

If more is never added to infinity, & it always stays the same size, then this means:

Infinity is unchanging, time is a loop, & history repeats.
Is this all there is to it?

Can we map infinity?

Answer 1

you, my friend, have yourself a paradox

Answer 2

Mathematical infinity is (or used to be?) constant. But Gamow presented a paradox (ca. the 1940s or 1950s) that suggested that it is a variable and there can be "more" infinity even after you have used up by definitiion all of infinity. A cosmic innkeeper runs an estabikshment where he has to find a room for every traveler, but there is an infinite number of roooms. Premise is that he fills up all his rooms with an infiniite number of guests.

But let's say that he has additional guests that show up. When that happens, he has another infinite series of even numbered rooms. If I recall properly, Gamow uses this paradox to demonstrate that infinity is always expandible. I read this when the paperback version of Gamow's book One, Two, Three infinity came out in the 1950s, when I was in high school. It ws a very amusing, but serious, important, book. Read it if you're interested.

On the other hand, if we are talkng about infinity as representing the cosmos, then inifinity is an epanding reality of the universe. It is the continuously expanding universe originating with the cosmological big bang, which (last I looked into this) was more favored than the steady state theory.

But science being what it is, things have probably changed since the last time I looked into it.

Answer 3

Infinity is not a number in the traditional sense, but it does have a precise mathematical meaning. Mathematicians and physicists normally use "infinity" to talk about hypothetical processes or trends that continue without a definite end. For example, it's common to talk about what happens when you imagine a variable "approaching infinity" -- which just means that you're studying the trend resulting from letting the variable grow larger and larger.

Answer 4

If the universe is considered infinite, then infinity would be a variable. The universe is still expanding like a rubber band, so infinity must be growing in size.

Answer 5

Actually infinity means " never ending" so it has no limit as it had been defined previously. This means, it is not a constant but only a variable. It also means, no matter what number you think of it is at least one more; therefore, no matter what size you think it is, it is at least one more.
If it has no end, there can be no expansion to it itself, because everything else is a subset of infinity.
Even if you never added more to infinity it is already never ending not a fixed value.
It already exist of this form and it is only our discovery of parts of it that make us think of it as expanding, it is not. It is already everything, but we do not know everything. lIke knowledge, all there is to know already exist but we are only discovering parts of it over time. That does not mean knowledge is expanding only our understanding is expanding. But the knowledge of everything everywhere already does exist, and that also is something we wil never reach because each time we learn something there is always more to learn.
Never ending is key here, don't try to put a fixed value on it to understand it - that is where the error is.

Answer 6

Infinite means just what the word says, In Finite. no finish, or something Greek/Latin.
Beyond Infinite is a finite thought. That is quantum stuff.To map the infinite we would have to be able to grasp the thought of infinite. We know of an infinite, we made up and use a word for it, but that does not mean we have an actual idea or comprehension of the infinite.
To map it or to think it could be mapped is human grasping and holding what is an unknown.
I do not know if this is all there is to anything, this is the reality that we find ourselves in.
I like fruit loops cereal.
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Answer 7

Infinity is a term invented to encapsulate and classify that which is beyond understanding,thereby putting it in an inferior position to the human psyche,who's hubris is quite large.(but not infinite).

Answer 8

There are many aspects of the infinite.

The universe is finite. There are numerous mathematical aspects of infinity.