Quote (BovineDesi @ Thu, May 14 2009, 08:49pm)
Ehm thats wrong. There may be no bounds to space time (goes unto infinity), but it has been proved that there is a specific amount of mass in the universe.
There are a couple proofs that prove that statement wrong, the first and easiest is -- when you look into the night sky, why do you see lots of empty space? If the universe had an infinite amount of matter, it means there would be an infinite amount of stars and therefore you should not be able to see anything but a blanket of stars in the night sky. In fact there should be no night time, the sky would still be white!.
Secondly, if there was an infinite amount of matter in the universe, there would be an infinite amount of gravity acting on each object and thus everything would collapse back to the center in an instant.
But I support the theory that the universe is, was and will always be. No beginning and no end -- it may be a hard concept for us to grasp, but thats because we are finite creatures and everything in our life is finite indeed. But perhaps there is also an infinite, and perhaps there was never a time = 0.
Very good you can create circular arguments. But, due to the fact that there is an infinite amount of space, there could be an infinite amount of stars that are an infinite amount apart. There are already many stars that have burned out and still appear to be bright. The term is called a light year, or the distance light can travel over a year. So there could be an infinite amount of stars that are trillions of light years away and have not reached earth yet.
Clearly gravity has limitations of distance. For example our moon's gravity may have effect on our tides, but it would not effect the gravity of other universes.
True. There one was a time that humans didn't understand the concept of 0 either. Eventually though, I believe that we may understand infinites.
And for you religious nuts out there, if god created earth, what created god? Did he just come from nothing and all of a sudden he was something? Sounds familiar, right?