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Oct 6 2009 05:32am
- 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).

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Oct 6 2009 07:51pm
somehting that will never end and go on for ever
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Oct 6 2009 08:00pm
I thought everything is still in space? So how would the entire universe be brought to one point? Where would the gravitational pull come from?
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Oct 6 2009 10:01pm
It would make sense if time and space were a circle; it's the only way I can comprehend it
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Oct 6 2009 10:04pm
Everything and nothing, at the same time.

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Oct 7 2009 02:31pm
Quote (rawr_rawr @ Wed, Oct 7 2009, 04:04am)
Everything and nothing, at the same time.


It's rather something divided by nothing.
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Oct 7 2009 05:23pm
From what I deduced from my research on this, even though it is quite minimal, I have seen that people think that infinity cannot be acheived by simply counting. So if you count forever then that still is not infinity. (I think I said it right). From a philisophical sense the true definition of infinity is God Himself.
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Oct 8 2009 02:26am
Quote (Katey @ Wed, Oct 7 2009, 02:00am)
I thought everything is still in space? So how would the entire universe be brought to one point? Where would the gravitational pull come from?


nothing stays, the universe is expanding. Most likely still due to the original force of the big bang, but gravity might pull it back. It might not expand forever but gravity will mutually attract galaxies.
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Oct 8 2009 02:38am
Quote (Deify7 @ Wed, Oct 7 2009, 11:23pm)
From what I deduced from my research on this, even though it is quite minimal, I have seen that people think that infinity cannot be acheived by simply counting. So if you count forever then that still is not infinity. (I think I said it right). From a philisophical sense the true definition of infinity is God Himself.


If infinity is circle like then we might comprehend it or achieve it. However numbers indicate that circle is unlikely because how would that work with numbers I dont think once a certain number is reached it starts at 1 again. The thing with numbers is that they might not be an argument because its just something theoretical a concept they do not exist in reality there are nothing physical. I don't know if I remember right, but doesnt a straight line will bent automatically if the distance is long enough in space (I am talking about light year distances). Maybe something straight cannot exist, so the universe space is bending and coming to the place it started again. So maybe what we call infinity is a cycle.
Not sure though its quite complex
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Oct 8 2009 08:46pm
Infinity is everything that we can't see or achieve.
It's not a place, distance or time we can ever make or even try to comprehend.

It's the boundless nothingness, oblivion.

Or in layman's terms, it's comparable to the amount of Chavs in the UK :p
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