Is it impossible for the opposite of infinity to exist as nothing at all?

Question

If all infinity collapsed & were destroyed, wouldn't there still be infinite space, & therefore time?

Even if it was infinite empty space?

You can't compress all there is down to the tiniest dot of nothing at all, can you?

What would it look like were this even possible? Or would there be nothing at all to look at?

Answer 1

Infinity is a concept - very handy in mathematics, but probably doesn't exist in reality.
Therefore, I guess you can assign any meaning to it that you are comfortable with when you ask things like "if all infinity collapsed & were destroyed."
Empty space is probably an excellent example of nothing - and even a infinate of nothing is still, you guessed it, nothing.
Interresting questions, though - if we compressed all there is down to the tiniest dot of nothing - where would our reference be? In other words, where would we be to observe it to see what it looked like?
Our brains aren't up to conceptionalizing these things. Perhaps some day.

Answer 2

Infinity is a concept, derived to solve mathematical problems.. there is absolutely no proof that any physical thing is infinite (i.e. the universe) everything as we know it is quantatitive.. but i know what you mean so here's my answer

Well think about the big bang.. The moment before it, there was nothing.. everything came from one point.. I follow the expanding / contracting universe theory.. it begins with a big bang, and all matter is "created" from a single point and shoots outwards.. as the universe grows old, black holes are formed.. sucking matter into a tiny tiny point, compacting it. Eventually as more and more black holes form, their gravity drags all matter into them. They are drawn to each other, until everything in the universe is sucked into 1 point once again, which contains all the matter in the universe, and all the gravity. At this point in time, this "mass" has so much gravity that time itself is stopped (the closer you get to a black hole, the more time slows down)

Then (i believe).. it starts all over again.. no idea how haha.. but thats my theory..

So to answer your question, i believe there will always be infinite empty space, but not time.. and you would not be able to look at it, there would be nothing to see.

Answer 3

Euclidean geometry is a model of space that makes liberal use of the concept of infinity. Although it seems to be a poor model, it has proven itself to be extremely useful. In Euclidean geometry, space is either infinitely large or infinitely small in all dimensions. A point is an example of space that is infinitely small in all dimensions. "Nothing at all" is a reasonable English phrasing of the space occupied by a Euclidean point.

Answer 4

first of all u can't collapse infinity. it is a concept. If u mean, the infinite universe, I think that you can, but it requires the massive amount of energy, same amount like it is required to expands the "whole" universe from a single atom particle according to the Big Bang Theory.

Answer 5

things dont usually have opposites, they have inverses. so instead of the opposite of infinity, the inverse of it would be infintesimally small. and if it were possible to compress all of the mass in the universe to a spot that small, you wouldnt be able to see it because it would be a black hole and there would be no light.