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Originally Posted by tore
I don't necessarily believe that our universe is infinite, but how can you say it isn't?
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Well see, now I believe you're ignoring the second part of my initial post.
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Originally Posted by RVCA
On the other hand, it's entirely possible that there were events that occurred before that-thing-fourteen-billion-years-ago. It's just that we have no evidence of them. We have no reason to believe that they exist. Everything we've ever seen adds up to the conclusion that the thing that happened fourteen billion years ago was event one. Is it necessarily true that that's the case? No. But it's not reasonable to believe otherwise unless and until some kind of evidence to that effect makes itself known.
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In that vein, sure, we could assume that the universe is infinite. But that necessarily defeats what got this discussion started in the first place: something infinite cannot have a period of nothingness like Stu was pondering aloud about