Have you eber contemplated infinity?

The dictionary says that infinite means endless. If something has no end then it also means it had no beginning. That means it has always existed. That's a lot to wrap your brain around.

Careful, you could think about infinity for eternity!

Hello, SAdave1. It is very typical of humans to believe that there must be something else, isn't it? . Why can't the Universe end? Just because you cannot imagine what would it be like? Yes, you can. Just imagine a really huge black wall, from which you could not pass through. That would be the end of the Universe. Like if you were inside a box. Done, nothing in the other side. Nothing, it really ends there, inside the box. Why can't it be like that? Why must there be an infinity? Infinity may sound beautiful, but I don't think that the Universe would have no end. Come on, imagine the size of this if it couldn't end. And it could be like if you walked to the extreme side of the box, you would just appear in another location of the box. For example, if you travel to a far, far away place in the Universe, you would appear in Venus. We never know. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

In spite of all the proof that it can't be done, I tried for many years. I believe I learned a lot from contemplating infinity, but it's just too vast to get my mind around it. I still think about it now and then, but by the time I'd finished grad school, I'd given up on achieving a final result. Sometimes I wondered if anyone who actually did get a handle on it would explode fro information overload!

you are right in saying that the universe doesnt have any boundary because if it had so then what would be beyond that...also it is ludicrous to believe that once our universe ends the other universe starts ...if we think in the fashion mentioned above then we will not be able to come to conclusion...now here is the solution:- mind visualizes objects with the help of two parameters space and time..thats why we always ask how big or when did it start? mind is crippled by these two parameters which prevents us to see the truth...the truth is that space and time are the creation of the mind ...truth can be realised if we stop thinking on the basis of space and time.....

I have tried to contemplate infinity, but I find it impossible to do. I do not think we have enough experience to be able to fathom infinity. I like your comparission to Everest, but I still cannot begin to imagine the length of time that infinity is. I guess some people have an easier time at it than others. I think that the hardest thing that I cannot understand about it, is that there is no end. Everything else in our lives has a defined begining and end. I think that is why I struggle with the concept of infininty so much.

I don't find it freaky at all! You're a theoretical physicist at heart! As a Scientific Pantheist myself, what you've said here consumes much of my philosophy of life and our place in it. I believe that there is a good chance that this Universe isn't the only one which exists but continues into multiple dimensions as part of a Multiverse. Keep on thinking