June 23, 2011

Okay. I have been sitting at home, watching youtube all evening. But after I catch up with the sewing channels that I watch, I get bored and transfer around, usually to videos supporting evolution (sadly, one of my favourite subjects of interest as it considers genetics, which I love) and they usually lead me around to new subjects that I pick up on here and there. If anyone ever wants to know where my wealth of random knowledge comes from, that's it.

However, today I heard something that blew my mind. Literally. I cannot accept its existence.
I was always under the impression that the universe was infinite as it was ever-expanding. It did not have an end. I understood that as "infinity".
Silly me.
I can understand infinity, which I suppose, is supposed to be a difficult concept to comprehend. I have always understood infinity. There can't possibly be an end to the universe, if it can ever-expand. Yes, an absence of everything, but space is something and therefore is an infinite area. On a slightly larger scale that induces dizziness, I have occasionally considered that my infinity ideal was contained in an infinite number of infinities. Dimensions, if you will?
It never occurred to me, however, that our universe is in fact finite.
Yes. Finite.
I'm not a physicist. I am not sure what this entails. But this is what I understand.

Except that I do not. How can something which is expanding be finite?
How can we exist in a finite determination? If we are finite, what do we exist within? Do we exist? Can we continue to exist in our finite space? Where is our finite space in relation to other things that must exist? Is there a greater amount of space? Is it finite?
And so on, and so forth.

Or, is there simply nothing? No space, no black, no air, no elements, no atoms. No existence after our little universe?
Can there be nothing? (which, I thought, made a vacuum?)


While I understand infinity in our universe just fine, I cannot seem to comprehend the opposite: a finite universe.
That kind of science simply alludes me.
Have fun wrapping your mind around it.