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I've never understood claims like this. For all we know, the universe could be infinite. Yes, that would mean the universe contains an infinite amount of energy
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
I've never understood claims like this. For all we know, the universe could be infinite. Yes, that would mean the universe contains an infinite amount of energy and that we'd find dopplegangers of ourselves if we travel far enough, but we can't be sure it's not true. We can't even be more or less confident in one hypothesis vs another.
Articles like this would be more persuasive if they had qualifiers like "Within our observable universe."
- liberte82 9y agoA lot of people don't realize just how much bigger the universe might be than "the observable universe".
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- PoachedSausage 9y agoI thought it had been established that the universe, as a (hyper)volume of spacetime is finite? That doesn't mean infinity isn't lurking somewhere beyond though.
- posterboy 9y agoMaybe in theory but I don't think that's something that could be empirically verified. An axiomatic theory is rather a working assumption, because anything else is mathematically intractable. How could anyone understand something that's too big to understand? My impression is that Multiverse Theories are a fad playing on semantics.
- goatlover 9y agoThe size of the universe is irrelevant to SETI, since they're just trying to detect alien civilizations in our neighborwood, which would mean the Milky Way.
- posterboy 9y ago> For all we know, the universe could be infinite if an infinite number of trees fall and and nobody is there to hear it, do they make a sound?