<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Well, I don't understand that metaphor. How about this one? We are effectively inside a finite sphere. Why can't we go as far as we can in one direction and run into a wall or something? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 3:05 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 24/08/2021 18:51, bill w wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is there a
consensus in our groups as to whether the universe is finite or
infinite? It certainly is infinite for the human race's
practical purposes.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Let's suppose it is
finite. So you go to a place where it ends. What do you see?
What if you tried to drill a hole in it? Would it go through?
Would it meet resistance? Would the end of your drill bit
disappear from existence in this universe</div>
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<p>I think it's quite likely that this universe is finite, but that
there is an infinity of such universes (I am not a cosmologist,
though).</p>
<p>As for 'going to a place where it ends', you can't. Just as you
can't go to 'a place where it starts'. Try drawing an x on a ball
at a place where it ends. Or starts.<br>
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<p>Ben<br>
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