Quote (MyAccountIsOsterHues @ Oct 6 2009 06:32am)
- Is it more likely to be a line going in one direction for ever, such as time can it progress endlessly, space.
- Or is it a circle time strarts progresses and at a point starts from the beginning again. (why do I think it could be a circle: Maybe the universe has a big bang, then the universe is expanding then gravitaion pulls it back to a single point and the next big bang takes place and that forever. This seems to be a circle. Also in respect to time. Time is dependent on matter, speed, space. Matter, speed and space if a big bang starts again are pretty much the same again creating the same time again. So maybe time progresses then starts again at the same point it has been previously).
Would like to have some thoughts on this.
If I were in space and I threw a rock, it would keep on going and going and going until it came across something in its way.
Assuming nothing ever comes in it's way, it will go on forever covering an infinite distance.
The key here is time. There are no natural infinities because eternity will never end. And if it were to end, then the distance that rock went would be finite therefore not infinite.
If you disregard the time variable, infinity is just an infinite distance, an undefined distance. It's undefined because there's no time to measure it.
Distance = Speed * Time.
You may have xx speed, but without an infinite amount of time, you can't have infinite distance.
It becomes just a concept. A very time-dependent concept.