SO IF THERE ARE INFINATE GALAXIES AND SPACE, then i would be right in saying that there's an infinate amount of energy in the world right?

Yes indeed, right on the money ^^

No.

As for the universe, it's impossible for us to know if it's actually infinite or not, since the observable universe is limited by the speed of light. My opinion is that although "the universe" is infinite, there is a finite (albeit unfathomably large) number of galaxies that occupy it. It just doesn't make physical sense to me that there could be an infinite amount of matter in the universe. (To better understand that, imagine you've got an infinite volume of space with a single watermelon in the center. Gallagher comes up and smashes the watermelon and pieces of it fly off in every direction. The universe would be the infinitely large room, and the finite number of galaxies would be the finite pieces of watermelon.)

Maybe war against aliens is coming. Just 'maybe'. Not because of all the movies about it. Movies brainwash you. Nah just kidding. There is no such thing as war against aliens.

very good analogy!

except who smashed that watermelon
and if that person existed then that means there must have been more matter

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im sure life exists elsewhere in the universe but who knows and moreover, who knows if its intellegant. Odds are there is SOMEWHERE out there some other life; i woud have a hard time believing we're the only ones

We would have absolutly no frame of reference if we ever met an intellegant alien species. Talk about culture shock

The person that smashed the watermelon is just whatever unknown mechanism that instigated the Big Bang. It very well could have been something inside of the pre-Bang matter that did it.

if there is infinite space and matter then yes there is infinite time (going forward and backward) and infinite energy, infinite everything. though unfathomable, it is supported by more and more experts every day. i predict in the next ten years the textbooks will change: there was no big bang!

This is a hard question, I do. But I do not know if they are as intellgent as us.

That's unproven. And the Big Bang is almost a certainty. Between the cosmological redshift and the CMBR, it's incredibly likely that both A) there was a big bang, and the universe is still expanding. And since there was a big bang, there is a start point to time, and that was ~13.75 billion years ago.